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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
Zadie Smith
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Zadie Smith
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
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London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
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