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He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. Friends, he'd once said, are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Needs
Probably
Immersed
Even
Books
Forty
Life
Attention
Thousands
Friends
Relationships
Else
Spent
Everything
Cost
Book
Personal
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