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We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.

Christopher Hitchens

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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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Portsmouth
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Christopher Eric Hitchens
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