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We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Listened
Received
Therapy
Clear
Truth
Much

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