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I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.

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Jonathan Carroll
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 26
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Jonathan Samuel Carroll
Nothing
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Buddy
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