That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened like I imagined them.
—John Green in Looking for Alaska
About John Green
John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977) is an American author, YouTuber, podcaster, and philanthropist. His books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, including The Fault in Our Stars (2012), which is one of the best-selling books of all time. Green's rapid rise to fame and idiosyncratic...
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...myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.