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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.
Elizabeth Berg
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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
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