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Without much accuracy, with strangely little love at all, your family will decide for you exactly who you are, and they'll keep nudging, coaxing, poking you until you've changed into that very simple shape.
Allan Gurganus
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Allan Gurganus
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 11
Novelist
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Rocky Mount
North Carolina
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