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I am willing to be annoying if that's what was necessary.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Annoying
Necessary
Willing

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