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That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

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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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