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He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Knew
Endowed
Ability
Grandparents
Making
Grandparent
Certain
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Feels
Heads
Long
Extent
People
Perhaps
Dead

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