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I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds they repair the broken skin.

Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Westchester County
New York
Skins
Close
Broken
Pandemonium
Wonder
Repair
Always
Intimacy
People
Wounds
Heal
Skin

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