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No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.

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
Boys
Annoyed
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Nightmare
Feeling
Confused
Girl
Otherwise
Feelings
Angry
Self
Girls
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Decided
Regulators
Time
Conscious
Segregation

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