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For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.

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