My name is Lauren and I am 27 years old. I have an associates degree in Nursing and Radiologic Technology and received a certificate in Mammography.

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I have the most amazing best friend in the world, Amanda Kate!!! I love her so much and I couldn't live without her!

I have a big family that keeps getting bigger. I love spending summers at the lake because all my cousins, aunt, grandmama and granddaddy are there. My family is my rock. I'm so lucky to have them.

I am SOUTHERN girl through and through. I say "Y'all" and don't care if y'all don't think it's not a word! I live in South Carolina. I am a HUGE University of South Carolina Gamecock fan!! GO COCKS!! I hate orange. I wear flip-flops through out the entire year. Even when it's 20 degrees outside. I live at the lake during the summer and spend as much time as possible tanning under the gorgeous South Carolina sun.

Now, it's time for my favorite quotes!! (And there are lots of them)

"Yup, were gonna give her some unisex name like…Chris or Parker or Ashley…oh I know…how about Bobby!"
"Wow…one more to add to the list." he said, rolling his eyes at Rory's attitude toward his business partner. "Wait…Ashley isn't a boys name…" he added as an after thought.
"Uh…Ashley Wilkes…"
"I thought we were talking about men…" For that he received a slap on the arm.
"Ashley was a very sensitive and considerate man and you should be so lucky to be compared to him!" Rory defended.
"Ashley was pussy who couldn't decide what the hell he wanted, let a manipulative bitch walk all over him, and fucked his cousin on a daily basis. But you're right…I do so want to be like him."
"Crude much?" she asked.

Don’t be afraid to make mistakes, stumble and fall, because most of the time, the greatest rewards come from doing things that scare you the most. Maybe you’ll get more than you could have ever imagined. Who knows where life will take you. The road is long and in the end, the journey is the destination. – One Tree Hill

Sometimes, life will kick you around, but sooner or later, you realize you’re not just a survivor. You’re a warrior, and you’re stronger than anything life throws your way. – One Tree Hill

People that are meant to be together always find their way in the end. – One Tree Hill

And one you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be…or lose that person completely. – One Tree Hill

When the world says give up, hope whispers try it one more time.

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
-Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind

My feelings are hurt easily, I can be emotional and cry buckets, I trust those I shouldn't, I love with all my heart...even when it's broken, but everyday I'm learning to be stronger.

I’ve made mistakes in my life. I’ve let people take advantage of me and I’ve accepted way less than I deserve. But, I’ve learned by from my bad choices and even though there are some things I can never get back and people who will never be sorry, I’ll know better next time and I won’t settle for anything less than I deserve.

I believe in love, lust, sex and romance. I don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...I want mess and chaos. I want someone to go crazy out of his mind for me. I want to feel passion, heat and madness.

One day you are going to wake up and realize how much you care for her and when that day comes she'll be waking up next to the guy that already knew.

That ain't no etch-a-sketch... This is one doodle that can't be un-did home skillet!!
- Juno

“If the Civil war was about Slavery I would resign my commission and offer my sword to my enemy."
~Ulysses S. Grant, Commander of the Union Armies

"A southern girl is a girl who knows full and well that she can open a door for herself but prefers for the gentleman to do it because it demonstrates a sense of respect. After all, every girl wants to be treated like a princess. We know how to make sweet tea and grits while telling you anything and everything about any football team. We pick our battles and fight with the heart of a pit-bull while still maintaining grace and elegance. Our mystique is that of a soft-spoken, mild-mannered southern belle who could direct an army, loves her momma and will always be daddy's little girl."

If what you see by the eye doesn’t please you, then close your eyes and see from your heart. Because the heart can see beauty and love more than the eyes can ever wonder.

When I was five years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, I told them they didn’t understand life.

I don’t need a guy to make me realize I’m worth something, I need a guy who realizes I’m worth something.

I believe in pink, I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happiest girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles. – Audrey Hepburn

At no point in your rambling, incoherent response, were you close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Obstacles are put in your way to see if what you want is worth fighting for.

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.

Sometimes things fall apart so better things can fall together. – Marilyn Monroe

There’s a difference between having an opinion and being stupid.

I’m not perfect. I’ll annoy you, tick you off, say stupid things and then take them back. But put all that aside, you’ll never find a girl that cares and loves you more than me.

I just want to be the girl you talk about, the only one you couldn’t live without… to be the one who makes your heart beat crazy and for you to say to your boys, “she’s my baby”.

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. Love the people who treat you right and forget the ones who don’t. Believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance – take it. If it changes your life – let it. Nobody said life would be easy, the just promised it would be worth it.

When I say I love you, I don’t say it out of habit or to make conversation. I say it to remind you that you’re the best thing that ever happened to me.

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Every time she laughs, she hopes he is watching… not so he will see she is happy, but so that maybe, just maybe, he will fall for her smile like she fell for his.

If vodka was water, and I was a duck, I’d swim to the bottom and never come up. But vodka’s not water and I’m not a duck, so slide me the bottle and shut the fuck up.

Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak, sometimes it just means you’re strong enough to let go.

Love isn’t finding the perfect person; it’s seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Today you are you that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you! – Dr. Seuss

Love is always patient and kind, it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited, it is never rude or selfish, it does not take offense and it is not resentful, love takes no pleasure in other peoples sins but delights in the truth, it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes. – A Walk to Remember

Sometimes, the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

Dreaming of you makes the night worthwhile. Thinking of you just makes me smile. Being with you is the best thing ever. And loving you is what I’ll do forever.

The best things in life are unseen. That’s why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry and dream.

You just have to live your life not caring what they think and shake off the drama and prove to them that you are better than what they think you are.

Don’t worry about the people in your past. There is a reason they didn’t make it to your future.

Sometimes things fall apart so better things can fall together. – Marlyn Monroe

Find arms that will hold you at your weakest, eyes that will see you at your ugliest, and a heart that will love you at your worst. Then you have found true love.

All I want is someone that will treat me right. They will never ignore me. They won’t flirt with another girl. They will call me beautiful and when I need him most, he’ll always be there for me.

People are going to want you, need you, exceed you, take you, love you, hate you, play you, rate you, save you, and break you, but that’s what makes you.

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

Sometimes you just feel everything and nothing all at once. Sometimes you’ll find yourself smiling while missing something at the same time. At times you can absolutely love a person, all the while wanting to hate them. Life comes without guarantees. Except that smiling will brighten your face, laughing will enhance your eyes, and falling in love will change your life.

Happiness is like a butterfly – the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder…

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its entire life believing that it is stupid.

She finally gave up. She dropped the fake smile and as tear ran down her face, she whispered “I just can’t do this anymore.”

The secret to having it all… is believing you already do.

Sometimes, life will kick you around, but sooner or later, you realize you’re not just a survivor. You’re a warrior, and you’re stronger that anything life throws your way. – One Tree Hill

Every song ends but is that any reason not to enjoy the music? – One Tree Hill

At the end of the day, you are who you are, and it’s probably who you’ve always been. –One Tree Hill

Don’t be afraid to make mistakes, stumble and fall because most of the time the greatest rewards come from doing things that scare you the most. Maybe you’ll get more than you could have ever imagined. Who knows where life will take you. The road is long and in the end, the journey is the destination. – One Tree Hill

Judge me and I’ll prove you wrong. Tell me what to do and I’ll tell you off. Say I’m not worth it and watch where I end up. Call me a bitch and I’ll show you one. Screw me over and I’ll do it to you twice as bad. Call me crazy, you really have no idea.

So, it’s not going to be easy. It’s going to be really hard. We’re going to have to work at this every day but I want to do that because I want you forever, you and me every day. – The Notebook

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.

To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. – E.E. Cummings

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. – John Steinbeck

You can spend minutes, hours, days or even months over-analyzing a situation: trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened – or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.

Nothing is impossible; the word itself says I’m possible. – Audrey Hepburn

When you are forced to stand alone, you realize what you have in you. – Uma Thurman

If ever there is a tomorrow when we are not together…there is something you should always remember. You are BRAVER than you believe, STRONGER than you seem, and SMARTER than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart I will always be with you in the HEART. – Winnie the Pooh

I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure, I’m out of control and at times, I’m a little hard to handle, but if you can’t handle me at my worst then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. – Marilyn Monroe

It’s hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but it’s even harder to give up something you know is everything you want. – Author unknown

I don’t know why we hang on to something we know we’re better off without. It’s like we’re scared to lose something we don’t even have. Some of us say we’d rather have something than nothing at all, but the truth is… to have something half way is harder than not having it at all.

I want to be remembered as the girl who always smiles, even when her heart is broken and the one who could always brighten up your day even if she can’t brighten her own.

Sometimes all you can do is not think, not wonder, not obsess, not imagine, just breathe, breathe in, breathe out, everything works out in the end and the more you worry about it, the longer it’s going to take for things to end perfectly, just the way they should.

Be strong now, because things will get better. It might be stormy now but it can’t rain forever.

I’m not one to seek revenge. My opinion is that Karma will be a bigger Bitch than I could ever be.

Happiness is a decision. You are as happy as you decide to be.

In life, you need one thing to survive: the ability to realize that shit happens; you step in it, accept it, get the fuck over it and keep walking.

Someday, everything will make perfect sense, so for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason.

Just cause her eyes don’t tear doesn’t mean her heart doesn’t cry and just cause she comes off as strong doesn’t me there’s anything wrong.

Believe in yourself and all that you are, know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

There are things we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn and people we can’t live without but have to let go.

Unless you’ve lived my life, don’t judge me because you don’t know, never have and never will know every little thing and detail about me.

Southern girls are God’s gift to the entire male population. There is no woman finer than one raised below the Mason Dixon line and once you go southern, may the good Lord help you to never go back. – Kenny Chesney

I think guys should still open a door for a girl every chance they get, everytime they should try to take care of a girl as much as possible. She’s like a princess no matter what. – Kevin Jonas