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People should be nice to you, Leonard. You're a human being. You should expect people to be nice.

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Matthew Quick
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 23
Novelist
Writer
Camden
New Jersey
Leonard
Peacock
Expect
Nice
Human
Humans
People

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