
Elizabeth Gilbert | Lightness from the Dark [Best of]
Good Life Project
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I'm Not Ase Now I See It. I'll Respond to It Later
Gilbert: My best friend in the world was a woman named rea elias. She and i had a 17 year long friendship that, by the last five, six years of it, had become so important to me she had become the most important person in my life. And then in two thousand 16 she was diagnosed with terminal pancreetic and liber cancer. Within weeks of that diagnosis, there was something about the jarring horror of that diagnosis that made him unable to not to see any more what he'd been not seeing for years. He left his marriage shortly after; spent 18 months with her before coming out as gay.
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