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Since the world has changed so much, the same values don't lead to the same choices anymore.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Choices
Values
Much
World
Flexibility
Anymore
Lead
Changed
Since

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