That's the thing about a human life-there's no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed. (Elizabeth Gilbert)

That's the thing about a human life-there's no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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