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No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.

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Jeff Lindsay
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 14
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Miami
Florida
Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
Tricks
Keeping
Deal
Deals
Inside
Blood
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