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Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.

Cynthia Ozick

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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Exactly
Works
Middle
Condo
Alive
Migrated
Class
Bohemia
America
Suburb
Wells
Vanished
Well
Suburbs

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