How to Avoid Giving Too Much of Yourself - Elizabeth Gilbert

Elizabeth Gilbert's Confessions of an Over-Giver

She was always generous—whatever she had was yours. But when she struck it rich and started bestowing things like houses, suddenly things got complicated.

By Elizabeth Gilbert

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She was always generous; whatever she had was yours. But when she struck it rich and started bestowing things like houses, suddenly things got complicated.

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