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Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.

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Jennifer Egan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 7
Novelist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Mother
Poppy
Poppies
Incompetent
Superior
Superiors
Seeds
Kissing

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