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But come. No explaining or mending. Be beside me somewhere.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Mending
Beside
Explaining
Somewhere
Come

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