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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Tell
Persons
Person
Even
Whisper
Understood

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