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Every letter was a love letter.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
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University Teacher
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Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century.
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She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.
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no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too.
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We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.
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We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.
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Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.
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You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.
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We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.
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and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world
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I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.
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I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960 and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.
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In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name.
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The zipper opened all the way down our spines.
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