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She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Things
Never
Would
Love
Loved
Anyone
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