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Nemeses aren't born. They are made.

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Roxane Gay
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Scrabble Player
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Nemesis
Destiny
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Born
Made

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