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I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Thought
Back
Would
Hawking
Flipped
Pads
Stephen
Paper
Next

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