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Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Money
People
Significant
Nine
Ten
War

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