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A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.

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Gayle Forman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 5
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California
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Scaling
Might
Everest
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Twenty
Twenties
Impossible
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