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For Margaret Cordi— my eyes, my ears, my beloved friend ALSO BY ELIZABETH GILBERT Pilgrims Stern Men The Last American Man Eat Pray Love Committed: A Love Story At Home on the Range, by Margaret Yardley Potter The Signature of All Things Big Magic CONTENTS Also by Elizabeth Gilbert One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen Twenty Twenty-one Twenty-two Twenty-three Twenty-four Twenty-five Twenty-six Twenty-seven Twenty-eight Twenty-nine Thirty Thirty-one Thirty-two Thirty-three Acknowledgments Also available by Elizabeth Gilbert You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. —COLETTE NEW YORK CITY, APRIL 2010 I received a letter from his daughter the other day. Angela. I’d thought about Angela many times over the years, but this was only our third interaction. The first was when I’d made her wedding dress, back in 1971. The second was when she’d written to tell me that her father had died. That was in 1977. Now she was writing to let me know that her mother had just passed away. I’m not sure how......