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I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

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Lee Child
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
Author
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Jim Grant
James D. Jim Grant
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Fired
Classic
Television
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Downsizing

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