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Never forget a Favor, Never forgive a Slight!

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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
Never
Slight
Favor
Favors
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Forgiving
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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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So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.
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