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Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means by which you can deliver very complicated, nuanced explanations of problems and possible solutions.

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David Simon
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: February 9
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David Judah Simon
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