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A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.

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Paul Theroux
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 10
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Medford
Massachusetts
Paul Edward Theroux
Everything
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