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I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

Jane Haddam

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Jane Haddam
Age: 68 †
Born: 1951
Born: July 13
Died: 2019
Died: July 19
Crime Writer
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Writer
Ann Paris
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