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Anybody can be charming if they don't mind faking it, saying all the stupid, obvious, nauseating things that a conscience keeps most people from saying. Happily, I don't have a conscience. I say them.

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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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