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Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.

Gabrielle Zevin

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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
Explained
Daddy
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Always
Things
People
Mattered

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