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Laura J. Swallow

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Laura J. Swallow is a teacher who likes reading, writing, eating junk food, and taking pictures in her free time. She wrote her first novel, 6,393 Miles, after living in Japan for over three years. She currently lives in Kansas with her basketball-playing husband, Brandon, and their three amazing children who inspire her to be the best that she can be. ...more

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“o the earth rotates around the sun, right? And it would be super weird for it to start happening the other way around, right? Like, suddenly the sun starts revolving around the earth— Except that’s sorta like what loving someone is all about— You’re moving along life, doing your thing, managing your priorities and commitments— And then suddenly you meet THE ONE. And you fall completely out of the orbit you’ve been spinning in. And now you’re doing laps around this new world. And you’re hoping gravity can sustain you. But there’s no way of knowing if it can until you realize it can’t. Guess it’s all an orbit of faith.”
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“People say depression lies. Anxiety is just stupid. It’s unable to tell the difference between things that are actually scary (being buried alive, for example) and things that are not scary at all (being in bed under the covers). It hits all the same buttons. Stop. Go. Up. Down. It’s all the same to anxiety.”
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