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Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Author
Lawyer
Novelist
Baltimore
Maryland
Emily Fisk Giffin
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