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"Author Emily Giffin, 40, shared 25 things you don&amp;apos;t know about her with Us Weekly. Her new book, Where We Belong, is available now.\r\n1. I do not like speed. I have not driven on a highway since 1996 and have never been on a roller coaster.\r\n2. I can name any Brady Bunch episode in 10 seconds or fewer and cannot be stumped in even the most obscure trivia question related to that show.\r\n3. I am obsessed with typefaces and fonts. My favorite is Nicholas Cochin.\r\n4. If I could do anything besides write, and get paid for it, I would be a professional baby naming consultant or a therapist.\r\n\r\n5. I was the men&amp;apos;s basketball manager at Wake Forest University during the Tim Duncan era. Once, when we were playing Carolina on the road in a televised game, I left the jerseys behind. A police escort barely got them to the game on time.\r\n6. I am good at keeping secrets. My own and others.\r\n7. I think I might have mixed up my identical twin sons shortly after they were brought home from the hospital. We will never know the truth.\r\n8. I love winter, and January is my favorite month of the year.\r\n9. I can say the alphabet as quickly backwards as I can forwards.\r\n10. My parents are on far ends of the political spectrum -- which is why I think I&amp;apos;m so moderate and lukewarm about politics.\r\n\r\n11. I have a mild, diagnosed case of prosopagnosia a.k.a. &amp;quot;face blindness.&amp;quot; At least once a week, I&amp;apos;m embarrassed by not recognizing someone I should know.\r\n12. I got into Harvard Law School, but went to Virginia. After graduation, I practiced law at a Manhattan firm for five years.\r\n\r\n13. When I was in high school, my boyfriend and I got jobs together at a restaurant. Our first paychecks came and he got 50 cents more per hour than I. It became my first &amp;quot;legal&amp;quot; claim, and I demanded that the manager pay me back wages at the end of the summer.\r\n14. I take an insane number of photographs. It is a rare day when my camera does not see action.\r\n15. I am very noise sensitive and can&amp;apos;t stand the sound of radio or television commercials. My children have adopted my mantra: &amp;quot;commercials are pollution in the home.&amp;quot;\r\n16. I have been&amp;#xA0; No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list five times, but have never been number one. My husband calls me the Buffalo Bills of writers.\r\n\r\n17. The only time I ever spanked one of my three children was right inside the gates of Epcot.\r\n18. I believed in Santa Claus until the seventh grade.\r\n19. About once a month, I dream that Jennifer Aniston and I are BFFs.\r\n\r\n20. I met my husband at LaGuardia Airport.&amp;#xA0;\r\n21. My favorite colors are orange and pink. My whole office is decorated in that color scheme.\r\n22. My first celebrity crush was River Phoenix; my current crush is Adrian Grenier.\r\n23. My first kiss was with a French exchange student named Sebastian. It was a true French kiss. Ha.\r\n24. I was supposed to meet a friend at the fountain between the World Trade Center towers on 9/11 at 9 a.m. I moved to London five days later in the first international flight that left the country.\r\n25. I have no sense of direction. As in none. For several months after moving into our new house, I turned left at the top of the stairs to get to my daughter&amp;apos;s room instead of right."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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