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I spent my entire childhood feeling like a freak because I liked to read. It's just like, Eh, no one else likes to read but me I must be crazy!

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Junot Diaz
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 31
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
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I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.
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I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.
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