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Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Westchester County
New York
Time
Enact
Waits
Aren
Progress
Forever
Waiting
Feelings
Men

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