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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.

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
Hurt
Turns
Heaviness
Lasts
Fills
Last
Limbs
Difficult
Stone
Must
Stones
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