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It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Wish
Wishing
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Confused
Feels
Atmosphere
Air
Sitting
Humid
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Humidity
Days
Day
Water
Porch

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