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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Mean
Domes
Sadness
Express
Knowing
Words
Enough

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