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I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me.
James Frey
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James Frey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 12
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Cleveland
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James Christopher Frey
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I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.
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