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Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
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London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
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Nowadays
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Connections
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