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that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbon’s could hardly wait for the night to forget themselves in sleep
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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
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Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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