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Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

Lauren Oliver

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Lauren Oliver
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: November 8
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Westchester County
New York
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Emotionally
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Cry
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Finishing

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