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That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads.

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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
Summer
Become
Everything
Would
Hovering
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