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Shot at twenty-seven times - what a Dominican number.

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Junot Diaz
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
Faculty Member
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Junot Diaz
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