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I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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Melbourne
Australia
War
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