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I won't have to miss smoking any more. Nobody smokes where I'm going: It's like a row of restaurants in California.

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Clive James
Age: 80 †
Born: 1939
Born: October 7
Died: 2019
Died: November 24
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New South Wales
Australia
Clive Vivian Leopold James
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