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It won't matter if nobody ever thinks I'm pretty (although sometimes I wish, just for a second, that somebody would)

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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
Thinking
Second
Somebody
Pretty
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Ever
Matter
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Sometimes
Although
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Nobody

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