If your last words are somehow meant to encapsulate your entire existence, Liz finds <i>um</i> strangely appropriate. <i>Um</i> means nothing. <i>Um<… - Gabrielle Zevin

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If your last words are somehow meant to encapsulate your entire existence, Liz finds um strangely appropriate. Um means nothing. Um is what you say while you're thinking of what you'll really say. Um suggests someone interrupted before they'd begun. Um is a fifteen-year-old girl who gets hit by a taxicab in front of a mall on the way to help pick out a prom dress for a prom she isn't even going to, for God's sake.

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Gabrielle Zevin (born October 24, 1977) is an author and screenwriter who lives in the USA.

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It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us," the passage goes, "but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable. Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down a road. And someday, you do not know when, he, or indeed she, will be there. You will be loved because for the first time in your life, you will truly not be alone. You will have chosen to not be alone.

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