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It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Lived
Days
Didn
Best
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Life

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