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The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Seeds
Mess
Lost
Death
Made

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