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A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like 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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Men
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Phony

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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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...my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.
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No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.
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you can’t use logic on human behavior.
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