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During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
Novelist
University Teacher
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Detroit
Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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