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Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger.

James Ellroy

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James Ellroy
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 4
Autobiographer
Crime Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
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LA
California
Love
Revoke
Fierce
Apart
Danger
Tell
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