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She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Never
Men
Think
Idolize
Thinking
Audrey
Like
Hepburn
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Straight
Women

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