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Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.

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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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Though
Faces
Veils
Used
Glimpse
Women
Revealed
Whenever
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