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Waste today, want tomorrow.

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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Science Fiction Writer
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Westchester County
New York
Waste
Tomorrow
Today

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This is pretty much the answer to every problem you encounter in suburbia: plant a tree, and hope you don't see anyone's privates.
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For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here I should never have asked him to cross.
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Old words words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die
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This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.
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The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood. -From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University
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I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for.
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I start to back away before I do something wildly inappropriate, like jump on top of him.
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