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My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.

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Lee Child
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
Author
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Coventry
England
UK
Jim Grant
James D. Jim Grant
Whatever
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Mother
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