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Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and mistakes become really obvious.

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Westchester County
New York
Start
Artist
Sketched
Become
Amateur
Look
Focusing
Looks
Closely
Right
Mistakes
Really
Obvious
Like
Mistake

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