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Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Alcoholism
Season
Seasons
Winter
Despair

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