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Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.

Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Westchester County
New York
Thing
Delirium
Indifference
Dangerous
Hate

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