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Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down the road and someday, you do not now when, you will make a wrong tun. At the end of the road, when you're least expecting it, he (or indeed she) will be there.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Road
Least
Wrong
Ends
Make
Expecting
Someday
Driving
Indeed

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