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Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Already
Heart
Pooled
Seeped
Dams
Burst
Legs
Regret

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