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I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.

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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
Faculty Member
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
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Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.
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The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.
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Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number.
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My greatest responsibility is to acknowledge the mistakes and the shortcomings of the country in which I live, to acknowledge my privileges, and to try to make it a better place.
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