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They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived- bound, in other words, for life.

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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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Dimly
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Rearing
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Husbands
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