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I didn’t feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have to live a hundred more years, carrying my grief around like a backpack full of stones.

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Jennifer Weiner
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 28
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