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Maybe this is the secret to talking to boys--maybe you just have to be angry all the time.

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 41
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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Science Fiction Writer
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Westchester County
New York
Time
Angry
Boys
Maybe
Secret
Talking

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Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.
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