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You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed.

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Tattoo
Naked
Bed
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Leaping
Trying
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Men
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