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You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.

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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
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Baltimore
Maryland
Emily Fisk Giffin
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True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.
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I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back.
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It's amazing to me how few guys know their friends' birthdays.
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i wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves.
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It's like Brad Pitt for us. You might not like blond men with pretty features, but c'mon, it's Brad. You're not going to kick him out of bed for eating crackers.
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For true downtime, I enjoy going for light runs, having drinks with friends and going to the movies with my husband.
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Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.
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The whole misery loves company thing never applies more than when you're breaking up. The thought that the other person is doing fine is simply too much to bear.
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In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.
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She wonders what fool ever said that it's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all - she has never disagreed with something so much.
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