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No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.

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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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Leave
Alone
Men
People

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