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Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't.

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
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