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In New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here.

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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
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