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We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us.

Lauren Oliver

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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
Disappear
Leave
Forget
Ends
People
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