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I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Boots
Minute
Heavy
Minutes
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