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There's still always the possibility that I've gone totally, clinically cuckoo. But somehow I don't think so anymore. An article I once read said that crazy people don't worry about being crazy - that's the whole problem.

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 41
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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