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My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.

Gabrielle Zevin

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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Wanted
Instead
Every
Started
Winning
Lasts
Kiss
Last
Lawyer
Mother
Kissing
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Cry
Beautiful
Broken

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