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It was the same night I gave myself to him completely, knowing that I would belong to him for as long as he wanted to keep me. And, as it turned out, even longer than that.

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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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