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A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.

Lee Child

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Lee Child
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
Author
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Jim Grant
James D. Jim Grant
Crossings
Fingers
Hundred
Feet
Wish
Making
Handgun
Two
Handguns
Thing
Crossing

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