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I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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