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We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Girl
Noise
Jobs
Seemed
Death
Finally
Merely
Women
Girls
Even
Understood
Fascinate
Really
Knew
Virgins
Love
Create
Disguise

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