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She's applying her lipstick I've always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.

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