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She carried herself like she was exactly the size everyone else wanted to be.

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Rainbow Rowell
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 24
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People tend to pair off that way, Cath thought, in matched sets.
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We're going to listen music in my room.' 'Fine,' his dad said from underneath the sink. 'Just don't get anybody pregnant.
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I just want to break that song into pieces and love them all to death.
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Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.
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Or maybe, he thought now, he just didn't recognize all those other girls. The way a computer drive will spit out a disk if it doesn't recognize the formatting. When he touched Eleanor's hand, he recognized her. He knew.
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The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.
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She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet. If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.
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Dumb. He should have gotten the pen. Jewelry was so public... and personal, which was why he'd bought it. He couldn't buy Eleanor a pen. Or a bookmark. He didn't have bookmarklike feelings for her.
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