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But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Cells
Forget
Remember
Body
Humans
Elephant
Elephants
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