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What do you want a clock for?” “To find out what time it is,” I said. “I think that’s the usual purpose.

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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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