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Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.

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Jeff Lindsay
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 14
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Miami
Florida
Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
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Humans

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I sighed as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.
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