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Maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

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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
Moments
Layered
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Possibilities
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The old Lena is dead.
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There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.
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An eye for an eye. And the whole world goes blind, Coral puts in quietly.
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