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Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

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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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