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Only someone who'd never been an animal would put up a sign saying not to feed them.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Animal
Someone
Never
Would
Feed
Sign
Saying

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