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I wanted so much to have a life. Even just once, even for a second.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Second
Wanted
Even
Much
Life

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