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He was powerful and I died of love in his shadow.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Novelist
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Waterbury
Connecticut
Shadow
Died
Powerful
Love

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