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only when it rains. and sometimes, too, when i remember.

Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 41
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Westchester County
New York
Rain
Remember
Sometimes
Rains

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