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So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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Waterbury
Connecticut
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Giovanni
Sadness
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Years

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