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Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Fooled
Control
Thinking
Life
Dieting

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