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"At this point, you&amp;#039;ve read everything there is to know about The Fault in Our Stars. You know that it&amp;#039;s not a cancer story, but a love story that has a touch of cancer. You know all about Shai&amp;#039;s weird eating habits and Ansel&amp;#039;s secret talents, and you&amp;#039;re totally crushing on #NANSEL. But what you may not know is what inspired the author behind some of the greatest love stories ever! Check out three honest truths about love from the TFIOS author himself.   1. Love Isn&amp;#039;t Perfect &amp;quot;I wanted to write a love story that wasn&amp;#039;t sentimental,&amp;quot; John tells us. &amp;quot;I wanted it to be honest and reflected the reality of love, which is that it&amp;#039;s complicated and messy, but also really wonderful.&amp;quot; 2. Love Is Just As Real When You&amp;#039;re A Teen  &amp;quot;A lot of times people think that teenagers can&amp;#039;t experience that love, that they can&amp;#039;t experience real, mature love, and that is completely untrue,&amp;quot; John insists. &amp;quot;The love that teenagers experience is as every bit real as any other kind of love.&amp;quot; 3. Love Doesn&amp;#039;t Always Last John&amp;#039;s first real love was also his first real girlfriend in college, and even though at the time, he was &amp;quot;totally in love&amp;quot; with her, it didn&amp;#039;t work out\u2014which ended up being a good thing. According to John, who&amp;#039;s married now, had he ended up with his first love, the two would have had a horrible marriage, and he knows she would say that, too! But all his experiences with love&amp;#039;s ups and downs helped to influence Hazel and Gus&amp;#039;s love story: &amp;quot;I always say that just because something happened to you, doesn&amp;#039;t mean that it should be in a book,&amp;quot; John says. &amp;quot;But also just because something happened to you doesn&amp;#039;t mean that it shouldn&amp;#039;t be in a book either. Inevitably, parts of me are mixed up in everything in the story.&amp;quot; MORE: John Green Reveals 4 Things You Didn&amp;#039;t Already Know About TFIOS! 3 Reasons TFIOS Wil Be Just As Epis As The Book! The Bizarre TFIOS Ending That Almost Was! Photo Credit: Instagram "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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