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It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man

Curtis Sittenfeld

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