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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
Gabrielle Zevin
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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
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