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Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Goodbye
Despair
Struggle
Winning
Everyone
Ends
Struggles
Thing
Wins
Always
Lets

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