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It's so strange. Everything can be going alone just great, and then one day, whack, you're blindsided-- a lousy, crammy blow you didn't see coming.

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James Patterson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 22
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Newburgh
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James Brendan Patterson
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