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College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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