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Please understand. Please forgive me. I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful. Don't hate me. I still love you.

Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Westchester County
New York
Hope
Understand
Prayed
Forgive
Hate
Forgiving
Stills
Painful
Still
Became
Every
Please
Love
Alive

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