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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Things
Family
Hate
Means
Mean

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