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I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Love
Refuse
Losing
Afraid
Anything
Something

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