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People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.

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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
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Novelist
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New York City
New York
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Good
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Dash
People
Littles
Elsewhere
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