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This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.
Jennifer Egan
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Jennifer Egan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 7
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Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
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It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.
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Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.
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Stu walked Bennie over to Chris in the chair and parted his hair to reveal some tan little creatures the size of poppy seeds moving around on his scalp. Bennie felt himself grow faint.'Lice' the barber whispered.'They get it at school'. 'But he goes to private school' Bernie had blurted.'In Crandale,New York!
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