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Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Thought
Life
Jumped
Dreamer
Basically
Touch
Somebody
Probably
Reality

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