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The window was still open.” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close it or else she’d go on jumping out of it forever

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Thinking
Open
Lisbon
Forever
Jumping
Clear
Shut
Else
Remembered
Stills
Suicide
Still
Window
Ever
Close
Think
Knew

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