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We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Halves
Parts
Half
Many
Made

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