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Feeling - what authentic human fun!

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Jeff Lindsay
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 14
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Miami
Florida
Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
Authentic
Fun
Feeling
Feelings
Human
Humans

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