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She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Weight
Dashes
Full
Spinster
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Dickinson
Writing
Spinsters
Never
Emily
Like
Gaining
Brilliance
Poems

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