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One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.

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Tao Lin
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: July 2
Novelist
Poet
Writer
City of Alexandria
Virginia
Less
Continuously
Moments
Accumulation
Arrangements
Gifted
Seemed
Single
Simply
Inaccessible
Future
Arrangement

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