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Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

Jay McInerney

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Jay McInerney
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 13
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Hartford
Connecticut
Symbol
Irony
Symbols
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Everything
Betrayed

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