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We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Everything
Would
Like
Burst
Flames
Looked
Felt

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