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I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

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Jonathan Carroll
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 26
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Jonathan Samuel Carroll
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Started
Story
Stories
Even
Dreary
Threw
Pens

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