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My favorite classes were always dumb nerdy vocabulary.

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Karen Russell
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: July 10
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Miami
Florida
Favorite
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Always
Nerdy
Vocabulary
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Dumb

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