"I want to believe that it is sometimes our greatest and most difficult pain that leads us to our lives' purpose."
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Paula McLain
(born 1965) is an American author of several novels, two collections of poetry, and a . Her novel ', a fictionalized account of Ernest Hemingway's marriage to , was a New York Times bestseller.
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