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You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.

Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Westchester County
New York
Happiness
Happy
Sometimes
Delirium
Unhappiness
Unhappy
Unless

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