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Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

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Jonathan Carroll
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 26
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Jonathan Samuel Carroll
Easy
Everything
Think
Thinking
Sight
Lose
Loses

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