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Even our parents seemed to agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters' inanities as though they could tell us the truth about our own lives.
Even our parents seemed to agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters' inanities as though they could tell us the truth about our own lives.
Approximate author period: c. 1960 AD · modern
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- Jeffrey Eugenides
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- Approximate author period: c. 1960 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1960; activity date not established; Wikidata Q357108, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357108 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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