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You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors.

Emily Giffin

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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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Wind
Trying
Love
Quantify
Misleading
Mislead
Focusing

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