She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, l…

John Green
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She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome. ✨ John Green (2013). Paper Towns, p.91, A&C Black
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She’s the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome. ✨ John Green (2013). Paper Towns, p.91, A&C Black

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