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I'm quite sure more people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake all of it. --Dexter

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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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