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We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Suicide
Razor
Calm
Razors
Creatures
Wrists
Couldn
Sad
Imagine
Veins
Emptiness
Opened
Creature

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