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For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.

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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
France
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Interest
Away
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Long
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Paris

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