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But what she was really trying to say was this: I like music better than anything in the world, after you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Better
Trying
Really
Like
World
Anything
Music

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