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I was obsessed with Agatha Christie in sixth grade.

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Christopher Bollen
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: November 26
Journalist
Novelist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Christie
Sixth
Grade
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Obsessed
Agatha

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