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Your dad didn't die, so I won't be able to explain it to you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Dad
Dies
Didn
Able
Explain

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