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- Nothing else has any efficacy, I might as well be myself. - But your yourself sucks! - It is, lamentably, all I have.
Junot Diaz
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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
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Science Fiction Writer
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Junot Diaz
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