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Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.

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Jonathan Tropper
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 19
Executive Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Riverdale
New York City
Tolerate
Pity
Learned
Simply
Stand
Anyone
Else
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Fart

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