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Dying makes everyone weaker, subject to painful insight, and not always insight into any kind of special truth - it's just the approaching end that makes people want to believe they are seeing something in the line of a great revelation.

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