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There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

Laurie Halse Anderson

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Laurie Halse Anderson
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 23
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Laurie Beth Halse
Easier
Unexpected
Steps
Mirror
Small
Esteem
Forever
Mirrors
Making
Anymore
Anorexia
Away
Laugh
Upward
Doesn
Magic
Cure
Matter
Laughing
Cures

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