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If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 41
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Westchester County
New York
Happens
Nothing
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Crosses
Meaning
Line
Loses
Lines

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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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