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What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.
Jimmy Breslin
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Jimmy Breslin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: October 17
Died: 2017
Died: March 19
Journalist
Jamaica
Queens
James Earle Breslin
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Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.
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