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I made up my mind that nothing,, nothing was going to stop me Not even me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Made
Mind
Stop
Nothing
Even
Going

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