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I think the most well-adjusted people live in the present with an eye toward the future - I'm not among those.
Emily Giffin
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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
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There are people and places and events you'd prefer to forget or at least gloss over. In the end, you can slap a pretty label on it - like serendipity or fate. Or you can believe that it's just the random way life unfolds.
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There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.
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You can love someone you mistrust.
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Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy rhythm of blame and hate. Focus my energy on something than the ache in my heart.
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I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing its will on the unwilling.
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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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And then there is our personal history. Memories only we share. Things not another living soul would understand.
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Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!
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I think that we have to consciously be aware that every moment we're in, every different stage in our lives, we can control.
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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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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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