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It took me as long as I had known him to get rid of all of his words. Like turning an hourglass over.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Words
Long
Like
Hourglass
Turning
Took
Known

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