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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
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Night
Lisbon
Hardly
Suicide
Wait
Sleep
Since
Waiting
Forget
Cecilia

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