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Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 41
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Westchester County
New York
Leaps
Leap
Fingers
Water
Away
Time
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Pours
Jumps

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