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Sometimes I imagined stitching all of our little touches together. How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Many
Fingers
Sometimes
Anyone
Make
Doe
Stitching
Love
Together
Brushing
Littles
Touches
Ever
Imagined
Little
Hundreds
Take
Thousands

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