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The reality, certainly in my life, is that we all have love stories that go terribly wrong we all have horribly broken hearts. And somehow we endure. We're not destroyed by it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
Author
Essayist
Novelist
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Waterbury
Connecticut
Life
Hearts
Certainly
Broken
Wrong
Horribly
Reality
Terribly
Stories
Destroyed
Heart
Somehow
Love
Endure

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