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Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas.

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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Nobody
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Much
Really
Dramas
Paying
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