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I'd lost count of the disappointments.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Disappointments
Count
Disappointment
Lost

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