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That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.

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Elizabeth Wurtzel
Age: 52 †
Born: 1967
Born: July 31
Died: 2020
Died: January 7
Autobiographer
Journalist
Lawyer
Writer
New York City
New York
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel
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