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Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Walls
Everywhere
Dear
Wall
Home
Live
Anna

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