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I close my eyes. An image flashes—emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City believing, in that moment, that we had escaped the worst, that life would begin again for us. Instead life has only grown harder.

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