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Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex

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    Zeus liberated all living things from an egg. Ex ovo omnia
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    Here it comes, I thought. The first ex-boyfriend had been summoned. Soon the rest would follow. They would file around the table, presenting their deficiencies, telling of their addictions, their cheating hearts. After that, I would be called on to present my own ragged gallery.
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    mother she use to tell me something funny,” she said. “In the village, long time ago, they use to have sometimes babies who were looking like girls. Then—fifteen, sixteen—they are looking like boys! My mother tell me this but I never believe.”
    “It’s a genetic thing. The doctor I went to says it happens in little villages. Where everyone marries each other.”
    “Dr. Phil he used to talk about this, too.”
    “He did?”
    “It’s all my fault.” She shook her head grimly.
    “What was? What was your fault?
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