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Elizabeth Jorgensen

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Her memoir, Go, Gwen, Go: A Family’s Journey to Olympic Gold is available now (Meyer & Meyer Sport, 2019). She hopes you’ll buy it from a local bookseller.

Elizabeth Jorgensen is a writer and teacher. Born and raised in Waukesha, Wisconsin, Elizabeth spends her free time watching the Real Housewives with her aging Cockapoo, Branji. When she's not watching Bravo, she enjoys meeting fitness goals and training with Ryan Bloor at Right Body Fitness. And taking selfies with her favorite people.

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	Go, Gwen, Go: A Family's Journey to Olympic Gold by Nancy Smirl Jorgensen (Goodreads Author), Elizabeth Jorgensen (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 354 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gwen Jorgensen: USA's First Olympic Gold Medal Triathlete by Elizabeth Jorgensen (Goodreads Author), Nancy Jorgensen, Gwen Jorgensen 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hacking Student Learning Habits: 9 Ways to Foster Resilient Learners and Assess the Process Not the Outcome (Hack Learning Series) 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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And So It Is...A Memoir of Acceptance and Hope

by Jamie-Lynn Sigler

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The Motherload: Episodes from the Brink of Motherhood

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Elizabeth’s Quotes

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.”
― John Dufresne

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“Someone once told me that grief is love you can no longer express.”
― Selma Blair, Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up

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“The truth is, I am a person who is meant to stay home and read books, maybe have a nice dinner, and then put myself to bed. That is the life I’m built for. It’s all about the setting. When I’m out in public, it’s as if my system gets overwhelmed and instantaneously short-circuits. I turned the phoenix into ashes, by accident, in small ways, all the time.”
― Selma Blair, Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up

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