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longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness

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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Traveling
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Madness
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