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If singing were a feeling it would be this, this light, this lifting, like laughing.

Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 41
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
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Science Fiction Writer
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Westchester County
New York
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Lifting
Singing
Laughing
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Feelings
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