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Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.
Jock Sturges
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Jock Sturges
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
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New York City
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I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.
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