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-Who are you, anyway? -Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
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University Teacher
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Detroit
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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.
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It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.
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She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
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I was unemployable when I got out of college.
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