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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.
Gregory David Roberts
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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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