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When faced with people who have very limited conversational skills and no apparent desire to cultivate any it's always easier to simply go along.

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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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