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There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Waterbury
Connecticut
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Choose
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Heartbreak
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Love
Marry
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