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The first one, we’ll name Blue.

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 41
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
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Westchester County
New York
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It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born you lived a whole life and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister. Ah, well, he said out loud quietly. That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business. Death, he supposed, was the punch line.
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I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live.
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The whole point of growing up is learning to stay on the laughing side.
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Each step is more difficult than the last the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.
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I want to be healed and whole and perfect again, like a misshapen slab of iron that comes out of the fire glowing, glittering, razor-sharp.
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No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.
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Every choice is limited. That's life.
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Everything ends, people move on, they don't look back. It's how they should be.
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I just want to be normal, like everybody else. Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?
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It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.
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