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The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Decision
Visionaries
Powerful
Decisions
Girl
Blind
Left
Girls
Hands
Became
Better
Concerned
Live
Among
Self
Took
Visionary

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