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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: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
Author
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Coventry
England
UK
Jim Grant
James D. Jim Grant
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Wish
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Two
Crossing
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