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[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Precise
George
Chance
Left
Thing
Saunders

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