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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Infinitely
Blank
Rest
Book
Time

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