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Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them.

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Karen Russell
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: July 10
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Miami
Florida
Whole
Attempt
Dismantle
Feel
Explain
Capricious
Sometimes
Disaster
Disasters
Feels
Solve
Losses
Like
Crime
Globe
Loss
Globes
Evil
Spinning
Irredeemable
Natural
Crimes
Outrageously

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