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Don't you wish we could pick the people we love? Yeah, I say. Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.

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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Love
People
Pick
Picks
Yeah
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