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Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.

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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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Nowhere
Worth
Whatever

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...one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.
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