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Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.

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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
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