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Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

Junot Diaz

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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
Junot Diaz
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It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.
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but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.
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My father was a trigamist he supported three families. We were never not poor.
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It took me sixteen years to write.
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