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Plenty of people have bad divorces, but few of them end up with cancer, imprisonment, and public scorn. In the dark, rolling, treacherous wake of that sunken ship, the last thing I sought was a relationship or, heaven forbid, marriage.
Jim Goad
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Jim Goad
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
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