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Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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Laurie Halse Anderson
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 23
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Laurie Beth Halse
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Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.
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She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.
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I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.
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A breath of steam trickles out, filled with the sobs of a grown woman breaking into girl-sized pieces.
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