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The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Happy
Thing
Every
Hole
Fell
Holes
Middle
Secret

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