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One of these poems I wrote after having been here only a month. The other, I wrote this morning. In the space between the two poems, I have found acres of grace

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
Two
Poems
Month
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Months
Grace
Morning
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Acres

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