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The gift is for you...The surprise is for me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
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Gift

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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.
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The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.
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I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.
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Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?
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