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It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.

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Jeff Lindsay
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 14
Novelist
Playwright
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Miami
Florida
Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
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