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He received an unnecessary [[Brit Milah| ritual circumcision]], after which a serious, painful [[complication]] developed.
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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', MFA, ({{LifeData|birth=1972-05-05|birthplace=Leningrad|birthcountry=Soviet Union|death=|deathplace=|deathcountry=}}), is a Soviet-born Jewish novelist and journalist, who migrated to the [[United States]] when seven-years-old.
He teaches writing at [https://www.columbia.edu/ {{UNI|Columbia University|CUNY}}. He received an unnecessary [[Brit Milah|ritual circumcision]], after which a serious, painful [[complication]]developed.
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|last=Shteyngart
|first=Gary
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|author-link=Gary Shteyngart
|publisher=The New Yorker
|date=2021-10-04
|accessdate=2024-07-19
|quote=After the infection had subsided, the shaft of my [[penis]] was crowded by a skyline of redundant [[foreskin]] that included, on the underside, a thick attachment of skin stretching from the head to the shaft of the genital, a result of improper healing that is called a [[skin bridge]]. A small gap could be seen between this skin bridge and the penis proper.
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* [[Skin bridge]]
* [[United States of America]]
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* {{URLwikipedia|Gary_Shteyngart|Gary Shteyngart}}
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