Her fascinations: genius, creativity and how we get in our own way when it comes to both. The first time my best friend Susan heard me talking about him, she took one look at the high fever in my face and said to me, Oh my God, baby, you are in so much trouble. The author of 'Eat, Pray, Love,' Elizabeth Gilbert has thought long and hard about some big topics. Street-smart, independent, vegetarian, foulmouthed, spiritual, seductive. A born New Yorker, an actor and writer, with those brown liquid-center Italian eyes that have always (have I already mentioned this?) unstitched me. I moved right in with David after I left my husband. But if I could think of a stronger word than desperately to describe how I loved David, I would use that word here, and desperate love is always the toughest way to do it. Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love book loves Meditasi Bungalows The famous writer stayed here several times and said: The most romantic.

I inflicted upon him my every hope for my salvation and happiness. I clung to David for escape from marriage as if he were the last helicopter pulling out of Saigon. Did I say that I fell in love with David? What I meant to say is that I dove out of my marriage and into Davids arms exactly the same way a cartoon circus performer dives off a high platform and into a small cup of water, vanishing completely. Bills piled up, careers stalled, the house fell into ruin and my husbands silences were broken only by his occasional communications reminding me what a criminal jerk I was.Īll the complications and traumas of those ugly divorce years were multiplied by the drama of David the guy I fell in love with as I was taking leave of my marriage. We were living separately (he had moved into our Manhattan apartment), but nothing was resolved.

My life hung in limbo as I waited to be released, waited to see what the terms would be.

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