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What I Suddenly Understand My job is to make people uncomfortable. + I will do it all my life. ---> My mother, Sasha Blake, is my first victim.

Jennifer Egan

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Jennifer Egan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 7
Novelist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
People
Suddenly
Understand
Jobs
Mother
Firsts
Sasha
First
Blake
Make
Uncomfortable
Life
Victim

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