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But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.

Emily Giffin

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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Author
Lawyer
Novelist
Baltimore
Maryland
Emily Fisk Giffin
Timetable
Timetables
Learned
Create
True
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