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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 really am guilty, of many somethings, all of them lethal and very enjoyable and technically not quite legal.
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Or was he saying, Hi! Wanna play? And I did. Of course I did.
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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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