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What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur.

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Jeff Lindsay
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 14
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Jeffry P. Freundlich
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