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Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Affliction
Cure
Cures
Love

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