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For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

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Jonathan Carroll
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 26
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Jonathan Samuel Carroll
Kind
Mcdonald
Admitting
Ironic
Adult
Defeat
Adults
Eating
Alone

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