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It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Inside
Getting
Keep
Didn
Hard
Things

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