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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
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Washington
District of Columbia
Dear
Wall
Home
Live
Anna
Walls
Everywhere
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