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I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.

Elizabeth Berg

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
Author
Novelist
Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
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Someone
Able
Might
Everything
Much
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