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She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young women sometimes produce to make my life more difficult.

Gary Shteyngart

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Gary Shteyngart
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: July 5
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
St. Petersburg
Hands
Pulled
Young
Shoulders
Women
Bodies
Body
Sweet
Sometimes
Took
Giving
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Make
Hand
Concoction
Life
Difficult
Peppermint

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