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Nobody ever said life was fair.

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
Nobody
Ever
Life
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Fair

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Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.
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It's too late. I've seen things...I've lost things you can't understand.
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The mark of the procedure. A real one. Lu is cured.
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