This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someon… - Jonathan Safran Foer

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This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?

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Jonathan Safran Foer (born February 21, 1977) is an American fiction writer.

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