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Wounds are like water set to boil - they heal best left unwatched.

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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
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Novelist
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
Boil
Wounds
Heal
Water
Left
Best
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