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Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies.

Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 41
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Westchester County
New York
Pain
Spoon
Past
Spoons
Rendered
Babies
Someday
Saved
Baby
Palatable
Food
Smoothly

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