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Or was he saying, Hi! Wanna play? And I did. Of course I did.

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Jeff Lindsay
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 14
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Miami
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Jeffry P. Freundlich
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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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The mind picks some very bad times to take a walk doesn't it?
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The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.
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After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached out with my little finger and flipped the Barbie's head. It went thack thack against the door. I flipped it again. Thack thack. Whee. I had a new hobby.
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Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.
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I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.
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First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.
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But of course, there's no rest for the wicked, which I certainly am as I said, no rest for the wicked.
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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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I nodded with genuine synthetic sympathy.
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IN MY LIFELONG STUDY OF HUMAN BEINGS, I HAVE FOUND that no matter how hard they might try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning. And they do try, of course, but Monday always comes, and all the drones have to scuttle back to their dreary workaday lives of meaningless toil and suffering.
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Killing makes me feel good.
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I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast?
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It happens incompetence is rewarded more often than not.
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What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur.
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A reasonable being might think that he and I could find some common ground have a cup of coffee and compare our Passengers, exchange trade talk and chitchat about dismemberment techniques. But no: Doakes wanted me dead. And I found it difficult to share his point of view.
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