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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.

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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Author
Lawyer
Novelist
Baltimore
Maryland
Emily Fisk Giffin
Love
People
Pick
Picks
Yeah
Wish
Make
Things

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One way isn't better than the other they're just different.
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After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?
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When you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your pride, and sometimes you have to keep your pride. It’s a balance. But when the relationship is right, you find the balance.
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We are one of those couples i used to watch, thinking to myself that I'd never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer than it actually was, I am happy to be wrong about that.
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Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.
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Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.
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And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.
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I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to enter all the relationship data in a computer and have it spit out a definitive answer. You can't quantify love, and if you try, you wind up focusing on misleading factors.
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And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things - time and an emotional replacement - to fully mend one.
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Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'
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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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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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I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.
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I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.
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His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.
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