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The following doodle: a girl with pigtails is bent under the weight of a gigantic boulder. Her cheeks puff out, and her rounded lips expel steam. One widening steam cloud contains the word Pressure, darkly retraced.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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Darkly
Girl
Cheeks
Widening
Bent
Boulders
Clouds
Rounded
Lips
Puff
Pigtails
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Gigantic
Doodle
Pressure
Steam
Expel
Weight
Cloud
Boulder

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