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I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.

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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Author
Lawyer
Novelist
Baltimore
Maryland
Emily Fisk Giffin
Mother
Remember
Love
Indifference
Opposite
Opposites
Told
Hate

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