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I don't say anything and I feel awful. I tell somebody and I feel worse. I'm having trouble finding a middle ground.

Laurie Halse Anderson

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Laurie Halse Anderson
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: October 23
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Laurie Beth Halse
Tell
Awful
Anything
Findings
Feel
Finding
Feels
Ground
Worse
Somebody
Trouble
Middle

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I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.
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Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.
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I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way.... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself.
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