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Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.
Anthony Doerr
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Anthony Doerr
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 27
Author Of Novels
Journalist
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Cleveland
Ohio
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