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Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Jonathan Safran Foer
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: February 21
Novelist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Straining
Bones
Weight
Lives
Living
Feel
Sometimes
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