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We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.
Gabrielle Zevin
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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 46
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
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