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" "Relax,' she said. 'There's nothing wrong with a slow, awkward beginning. The text for the whole relationship, the sustaining mythos, is built in the first few encounters. The whirl of emotions, the push and pull. So the more of this kind of material we generate, the better.
Jonathan Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.
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