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Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse.

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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Children
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