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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.

Emily Giffin

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Emily Giffin
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Author
Lawyer
Novelist
Baltimore
Maryland
Emily Fisk Giffin
Often
Sometimes
Life
Shades
Endings
Shade
Gray
Aren
Happy

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