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Jeffrey Eugenides
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 8
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Michigan
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.
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During a warm winter rain ... the basins of her collarbones collected water.
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We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.
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Scars crossed her welded wrists.
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She understood that her heart operated on its own instructions, that she had no control over it or, indeed, anything else.
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no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too.
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I was unemployable when I got out of college.
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