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I've been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven't considered that they're also penning us in.
Lauren Oliver
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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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But hope got in, no matter how hard and fast I tried to stomp it out. Like these tiny fire ants we used to get in Portland. No matter how fast you liked them, there were always more, a steady stream of them, resistant, ever-multiplying. Maybe, the hope said. Maybe.
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Live free or die.
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Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too. The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.
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Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.
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