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It's amazing to me how few guys know their friends' birthdays.

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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
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Lawyer
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Baltimore
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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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Love is seldom—almost never—an even proposition. Someone always loves more.
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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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You can love someone you mistrust.
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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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Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.
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But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.
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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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there is always something comforting about knowing that you are not alone. That other people feel the way you do. That you are a bit screwed up, but still normal.
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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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My relationship with my sister is so central to my life. She's my closest friend, my biggest supporter, and I know she would say the same about me.
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I try to be true to the characters that I've created and sometimes I disagree with them, but their opinions about the story and the characters really matter to me.
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Sure, we were friends who exchanged soulful glances, friends who slept in a bed filled with sexual tension, friends who found any excuse to touch, but I worried that we'd never take that perilous leap of faith toward becoming a real couple, a permanent team.
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What's the point of being sad? he says. We're here now.
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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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That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.
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