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CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER THIRTEEN CHAPTER FOURTEEN CHAPTER FIFTEEN CHAPTER SIXTEEN CHAPTER SEVENTEEN CHAPTER EIGHTEEN CHAPTER NINETEEN CHAPTER TWENTY CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE 8/489
As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the ocean: “Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it.” “What’s that?” I asked. “Water,” the Dutchman said. “Well, and time.” —PETER VAN HOUTEN, An Imperial Affliction
Page 2 and 3: ALSO BY JOHN GREEN Looking for Alas
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Page 6 and 7: TO ESTHER EARL
Page 10 and 11: AUTHOR’S NOTE This is not so much
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Page 32 and 33: 32/489 Augustus half smiled. “Bec
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Page 38 and 39: 38/489 Augustus Waters behind me, a
Page 40 and 41: CHAPTER TWO Augustus Waters drove h
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58/489 people about it. Sometimes,
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60/489 “I love it when you talk m
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62/489 couple songs he liked by a b
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64/489 “I strongly suspect you wr
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66/489 jolted awake with her hands
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68/489 ARBOR DAY! LET’S HUG TREES
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Sounds good. I’ll be at the food
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72/489 were at school these days. S
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74/489 the public, and I said, “K
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76/489 cheeks, and marched off, her
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78/489 Twenty pages from the end of
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80/489 kept thinking about that lit
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82/489 class life in a little centr
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84/489 midsentence thing was suppos
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86/489 So I called. “Hazel Grace,
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88/489 “No, I picked up the dry c
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90/489 heard violent sobbing on the
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92/489 and shook his head slowly.
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94/489 breakdown, a boy whose conne
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96/489 “You could go over the bri
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98/489 once and then twice but stil
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100/489 disembodied floating eyes s
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102/489 Kick the shit out of that c
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104/489 basketballers littered the
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106/489 classes three mornings that
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108/489 talked to him, but it seeme
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110/489 “Utterly unreachable,”
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112/489 sixteen-year-olds you no do
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114/489 magnificent perfection of t
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116/489 After I sent it, I called A
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118/489 “Not your fault, Hazel Gr
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120/489 That afternoon, Mom consent
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122/489 “You’ve gotta give your
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124/489 turned to the side a little
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126/489 Dear Ms. Lancaster, I fear
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128/489 oxygen appropriately. I ima
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130/489 “Do you have a Wish?” h
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132/489 On Saturday, my parents and
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134/489 “God, I loved that guy,
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136/489 “So where are you going?
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138/489 get me to my eighteenth bir
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140/489 “Sounds Dutch.” “He i
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142/489 essentially forces children
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144/489 their little part to preser
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146/489 “I bet you say that to al
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148/489 “Behind you,” I said. I
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150/489 amazing, but he’d overdon
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152/489 “Yeah, he used to play ba
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154/489 “Sorry about Derek.”
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156/489 sisters. No wonder he’d s
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158/489 “Is everything all right?
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160/489 blow up and I would like to
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162/489 me, which made me worry tha
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164/489 He responded a few minutes
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166/489 joy you bring us is so much
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CHAPTER SEVEN I screamed to wake up
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170/489 stay with you 24/7 in the I
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172/489 me if I wanted some ice chi
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174/489 hovered over me one morning
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176/489 that’s hard to look at.
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178/489 impressed by the Shakespear
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180/489 heroic line “I shall say
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CHAPTER EIGHT We had a big Cancer T
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184/489 Yet, I thought. Dr. Simons
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186/489 Just before the Miracle, wh
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188/489 bedtime for the moment—pr
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190/489 third space, which was a pl
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192/489 still back there, weeds gro
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194/489 medication, and the thought
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196/489 the laptop half on his (fak
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198/489 hard you kick, no matter ho
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* * * 200/489 I slept for a long ti
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202/489 She ran in wearing a thread
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CHAPTER NINE The day before we left
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206/489 “Good. I’ve gotten real
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208/489 I shrugged and looked over
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210/489 too aggressive about saving
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212/489 effects—a raging undergro
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CHAPTER TEN We could only take one
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216/489 that I was not a nineteenth
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218/489 “I love you, too, Dad.”
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220/489 Just CAN’T decide what to
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222/489 plastic nubbins in my nose.
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224/489 “You’re plenty busy,”
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226/489 something noncancery wrong
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228/489 “I’m just saying: Maybe
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230/489 “It’s a metaphor,” I
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232/489 “It’s friendly,” I re
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234/489 “Also I’d live longer.
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236/489 Toward the end of the movie
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238/489 living people, and about ni
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240/489 “You just named two of my
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CHAPTER ELEVEN I think he must have
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244/489 “Yes and no,” he answer
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246/489 The Filosoof was right next
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248/489 watch the boats go by. It
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250/489 happened. Then finally, I s
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252/489 Oranjee was just steps from
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254/489 than Augustus. “Do you kn
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256/489 “The one you recited to m
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258/489 no exception to my high tol
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260/489 Anyway, I’ve never had oc
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262/489 “Really?” I asked. I wa
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264/489 “Sorry,” he said. “I
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266/489 to tell us the famously unw
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268/489 all the way from hip to foo
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270/489 “You’re not that charis
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272/489 football field to go to PE
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274/489 if she’d already said the
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CHAPTER TWELVE I woke up at four in
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278/489 “Peter Van Houten will ge
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280/489 Peter Van Houten’s white
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282/489 pursuing a postgraduate deg
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284/489 “This boy appears to have
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286/489 ottoman and crossed his sli
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288/489 and assistants. By this mea
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290/489 “We bought them dinner la
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292/489 Socratic philosopher who is
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294/489 hip-hop music outside of Sw
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296/489 “I assume that answers yo
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298/489 metaphorical representation
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300/489 “Like all sick children,
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302/489 I still wasn’t angry, exa
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* * * 304/489 For me there was no s
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306/489 I only had two days left in
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308/489 Augustus was standing above
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310/489 and then I was in an eerily
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312/489 slumped seated against a wa
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314/489 Otto Franks.) The book was
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316/489 “And even after that, whe
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318/489 been, and behind him, a cro
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320/489 We squeezed into the tiny e
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322/489 just tapers a little and th
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324/489 “I’m starting to think
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN The next morning,
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328/489 amused me with some Venn di
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330/489 So there is this thing call
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332/489 not Augustus. I always thou
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334/489 He was stroking my hair.
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336/489 him screaming that his body
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338/489 “Okay,” he said. But it
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN On the flight home
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342/489 leaned over me, raising his
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344/489 My dad was waiting for us i
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346/489 what you believe, but that
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348/489 After a while, Isaac’s mo
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350/489 Isaac’s mom brought over
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352/489 “Um,” I said. “Yes?
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354/489 “My throw was a little to
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356/489 moment, Monica’s mom clos
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358/489 Me: “Good observation, Gu
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360/489 “Okay,” I said. “Can
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362/489 from rib cage to shoulder a
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364/489 “Grand,” he said. “An
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366/489 “Yeah. My nostalgia is so
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368/489 couldn’t tell he was sick
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN One morning, a mo
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372/489 “I’ve pissed the bed, G
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN I woke up to my ph
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376/489 I took the BiPAP off and co
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378/489 energy to turn his mouth aw
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380/489 I wiped his chin and grabbe
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382/489 Williams was a doctor. It s
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384/489 pointed vaguely toward a la
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386/489 I hadn’t gotten to know h
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388/489 involved throwing one anoth
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CHAPTER TWENTY One of the less bull
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392/489 I looked at her for a secon
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394/489 “Fine, I’m sorry, just
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396/489 I heard a shuffling in a da
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398/489 “Seventeen,” Gus correc
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400/489 unfolded the piece of paper
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CHAPTER TWENTY- ONE Augustus Waters
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404/489 My parents stayed in my roo
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406/489 my bed staring at the ceili
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408/489 You’ll live forever in ou
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410/489 Just heard that Gus Waters
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412/489 way around my mom’s middl
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414/489 people I’d never seen bef
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416/489 I wanted to wear the little
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418/489 and how his heroism in the
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420/489 filled with great and terri
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422/489 Partner.” I just wanted t
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424/489 After it was over, Van Hout
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426/489 misbehavior if I attended h
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428/489 moment I felt like everythi
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430/489 “Gives you an idea how I
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432/489 So we sat there for a coupl
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Isaac: “Me neither. Pause.” 434
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436/489 “When did he say this?”
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438/489 “Oh, my God! Get out of t
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440/489 “But don’t you wish it
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442/489 After a second, I said, “
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444/489 He drank, recapped the bott
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446/489 allowed to use that word ho
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448/489 took out my cannula so I co
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CHAPTER TWENTY- FOUR Three days lat
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452/489 We took the elevator. I wal
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454/489 “No,” I said. “No, it
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456/489 “You’re not going to st
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458/489 master’s in social work.
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460/489 “This is so great. If I
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462/489 said. Anastasia got kicked
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464/489 took my cell from Mom and s
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466/489 “VAN HOUTEN!” I shouted
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468/489 I wondered why he’d writt
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470/489 daughter. What he wouldn’
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472/489 the world. Dad was waiting
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474/489 assert as fact the conjectu
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476/489 his dining room table, wher
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478/489 Here’s the thing about Ha
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480/489 that she was loved deeply b
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482/489 worry if she is smarter tha
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generosity and friendship. Inspired
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PHOTO BY TON KOENE, 2009 JOHN GREEN
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