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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
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Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.
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