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We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.

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Christopher Bollen
Age: 48
Born: 1975
Born: November 26
Journalist
Novelist
Cincinnati
Ohio
Show
Resolve
Shows
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Come
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Never
Honesty
Entire
Follow
Cancelled
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Resolves
Television
Midway

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