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Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The goon won.

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Jennifer Egan
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 7
Novelist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Time
Goons
Scotty
Shook
Push
Gonna
Head
Around
Right
Goon

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