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It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?

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Jennifer Egan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 7
Novelist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Looked
Sweet
Used
Pave
Human
Fuzzy
Humans
Roads
Men
Hats
Bones
Blue

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