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Do you have any coffee?'...'It stunts my growth, and I'm afraid of death.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Afraid
Growth
Death
Stunts
Coffee

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