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Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

Jonathan Carroll

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Jonathan Carroll
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 26
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Jonathan Samuel Carroll
Wells
Well
Children
Time
Unfaithful
People
Along
Probably
Hands
Young

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