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There are a lot of women like me in the world, and we rarely get to see ourselves.

Jennifer Weiner

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Jennifer Weiner
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: March 28
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
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Louisiana
Rarely
Women
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World

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There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.
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She thought of what it would be like to grow up without the one certainty that every baby deseved - when I'm hurt or cold or scared, someone will come and care for me - and how that absence could warp you so that you'd lash out at the people you loved, driving them away when all you wanted to do was pull them closer.
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She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name.
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