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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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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
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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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I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.
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Anything worthwhile is tough.
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My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.
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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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But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.
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As everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what makes us who we are and what can change us, if we let them.
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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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i want to make it official, i want to make it forever
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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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And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.
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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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But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.
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