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I don't want the success to go away. I don't want it to seem unearned.

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Roxane Gay
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 15
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Scrabble Player
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Unearned
Seem
Success
Away
Seems

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