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I'm going to keep seeing him as much as I can. We'll see what happens, I say, realizing that just seeing what happens is my version of going for it.

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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
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Lawyer
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Baltimore
Maryland
Emily Fisk Giffin
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In my stories, I think, as I've gotten older, the characters have become stronger and more independent, and more capable of making unconventional decisions.
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It's amazing to me how few guys know their friends' birthdays.
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I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.
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I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.
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The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.
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you'd do anything to get a soul mate back, right?… I mean, that's the nature of soul mates.
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Then he asks if he can kiss me. It is a question I don’t usually like. Just do it, I always think.
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No, scratch the word career. Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.
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Love as a verb. Love as a commitment.
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We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own. -- Leo
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I had seen the light, come to believe that a wedding should be about a feeling between two people, not a show for the masses...It was a magical, romantic evening, and although I occasionally wish I had worn a slightly fancier dress, and that Nick and I had danced on our wedding night, I have no real regrets about the way we chose to do things.
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Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.
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He threw in the towel before we were tested. Maybe because he didn't want to be tested. Maybe because he assumed we would fail. Maybe because, at the time, he just didn't love me enough.
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I'm glad you were both here, I finally manage, thinking how strange it is to be standing with the two people who made you, something most kids take for granted every day of their lives.
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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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Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!
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Looking back, I question whether I really loved Nate, or just the security of our relationship. I wonder if my feelings for him didn’t have a lot to do with hating my job. From the bar exam through that first hellish year as an associate, Nate was my escape. And sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love.
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