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If he stayed with me, I warned, he would eventually end up revealed in my books and in my stories. There was no way of getting around it; thatБЂ™s simply how it goes. His best chance, I made clear, would be to leave right then, while there was still time to escape with dignity and discretion intact. Despite all my warnings, though, he stayed. And he stays with me still. I believe this has been a great act of love and compassion on his part. Somewhere along the line, this wonderful man seems to have recognized that my life would not have a coherent story line anymore without him at the center of it. Elizabeth Gilbert Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of a short story collection, Pilgrims (a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award), The Last American Man (a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award), and, most recently, the #1 New York Times bestseller Eat, Pray, Love: One WomanБЂ™s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia. For five years she worked as a journalist at GQ, where her feature writing earned her three National Magazine Award nominations ...»