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and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Hurling
Succeeded
Second
Trying
World

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