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A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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Visible
Thoughts
Second
Face
Faces
Another
Beneath

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