“At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.”

—  Dave Eggers

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memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher 1970

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