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During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water.

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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
Collected
Winter
Warm
Rain
Water

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