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It happens incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

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Jeff Lindsay
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 14
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Miami
Florida
Jeffry P. Freundlich
Jeffry P. Lindsay
Often
Happens
Rewarded
Incompetence

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