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It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, Stay there. Don't move.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Often
Early
Experience
Line
Persons
Stay
Person
Move
Life
Saying
Traumatic
Lines
Pulls
Forever
Marks
Moving
Mark

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