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Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
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Novelist
Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
Unmasked
Serendipity
Intention
Sometimes

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The truth is, aging can be your realest opportunity to decide how best to live - and the best incentive for getting you to do just that.
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I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.
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But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.
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It's amazing how smart the body is. Though maybe we could do without loving. I think it's overrated, and I think it's too hard. You should only love your children that is necessary, because otherwise you might kill them. But to love a man? It's overrated, and it's too hard and I will never, ever do it again.
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It will happen when you're not looking for it. Love likes to take you by surprise.
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There is incredible value in being of service to others.
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I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.
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The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.
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This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.
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Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you
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I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.
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One thing I have always been is too short. It's adorable when you're in junior high. After that, it's a pain in the ass for the rest of your life.
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No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.
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Do you think that people ever really do believe they will die, that the world will just go along as always without them? I wonder if we aren't all a little surprised at the moment of crossover, if we don't look back over our shoulders saying, Now hold on.
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My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.
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I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.
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I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.
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I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.
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Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.
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