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I gave people the benefit of the doubt, thinking, so many people that appear very calm and even boring must have all these wild emotions and crazy ideas.

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