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Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop

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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
Sides
Marks
Written
Barely
Millimeters
Stories
Dull
Milliseconds
Love
Miles
Eons
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Whose
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