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Author Elizabeth Gilbert: After Grief, I Was Ready for Sensuality

By Jane Wheatley — 2019

Elizabeth Gilbert's partner died in 2018 at the dawn of the new year. Fifteen months later she still loves to talk about her, invoking the name of her beloved at every opportunity. It's what grief compels us to do – to rehearse the disaster over and over, to tell stories, to keep the flame burning.

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