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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.

Aimee Bender

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Aimee Bender
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 28
Novelist
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the United States of America
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