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Added October 17, 2014
The fire begins in the basement.
Does it hurt?
Yes and no. This is, after all, what I wanted.
Book
Rooms
Lauren Oliver
Published
2014
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Older
A surgeon can kill you. Other doctors, to whom it doesn't come as naturally, need a sustained and concerted effort, and even then they might have a hard time. But surgeons do it as quickly and easily as the flash of an operating light on sharpened steel, and you'll sleep right through it.
Newer
Oh no, not now. Please not now. I'd just settled into the glass half empty, made myself at home.