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You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Something
Doubts
Anymore
Forward
Doubt
Moving
Tell
Away

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