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I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend a day.

Lauren Groff

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Lauren Groff
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: July 23
Novelist
Writer
Cooperstown
New York
Sometimes
Shy
Feels
Straight
Like
Private
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Hours
Reading
Perfect
Person
Eleven

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