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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.

Junot Diaz

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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
Faculty Member
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Writer
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
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