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The essential matrimonial facts: that to be happy you have to find variety in repetition that to go forward you have to come back to where you begin.

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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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