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My mom is a master gardener and I grew up on a farm. I came back to it really late in life and discovered that despite how lazy and inattentive I was as a child, I had managed to accidentally learn quite a bit about gardening.

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Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
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