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There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Least
History
Ends
Human
Humans
Without
World
Span
Survive

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