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To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.

Curtis Sittenfeld

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Curtis Sittenfeld
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 23
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Novelist
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld
Elizabeth Sittenfeld
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