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I'd like to show how 'intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members' connects with 'the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.

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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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Aging
Family
Begins
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Mirrors
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Members
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Middle
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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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