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I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

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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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