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No, scratch the word career. Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.

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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
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Looking back, I question whether I really loved Nate, or just the security of our relationship. I wonder if my feelings for him didn’t have a lot to do with hating my job. From the bar exam through that first hellish year as an associate, Nate was my escape. And sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love.
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I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a sister story.
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But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.
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It's amazing to me how few guys know their friends' birthdays.
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His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.
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He who fails to plan, plans to fail.
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I don't really know why I went to law school.
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Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.
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I think that we have to consciously be aware that every moment we're in, every different stage in our lives, we can control.
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And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things - time and an emotional replacement - to fully mend one.
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Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.
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When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.
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What if two people want to be your partner, then what?
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There are two kinds of women--those who eat in a crisis and those who lose their appetite in a crisis.
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And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.
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Where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves—a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever.
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Sure, we were friends who exchanged soulful glances, friends who slept in a bed filled with sexual tension, friends who found any excuse to touch, but I worried that we'd never take that perilous leap of faith toward becoming a real couple, a permanent team.
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you'd do anything to get a soul mate back, right?… I mean, that's the nature of soul mates.
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I'm very open in terms of sharing bits about my life, but I think it's very easy to get a distorted sense of who anyone is through social media.
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How different this moment feels, for so many reasons. I tell myself that no two loves are identical - but that I don't have to compare anymore.
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