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Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.

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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
Jeffry P. Lindsay
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