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They’d already taken her from me once. I didn’t want to lose her again.

Lauren Oliver

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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
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We can never understand. We can only try, fumbling our way through the tunneled places, reaching for light.
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The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life of freedom and feeling.
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