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First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.

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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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