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that's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her. like burning alive.

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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Science Fiction Writer
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Westchester County
New York
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Dead
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Without
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Burning

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