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She said, Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need? I said, It depends on what it means to need.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
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Need
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