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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
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Detroit
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Jeffrey Kent Eugenides
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I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.
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