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What were we spending so much time doing if not getting to know each other?

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Spending
Getting
Much
Time

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