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She was kind of girl who'd eat all your cashews and leave you with nothing but peanuts and filberts.

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Raymond Chandler
Age: 70 †
Born: 1888
Born: July 23
Died: 1959
Died: March 26
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Raymond Thornton Chandler
Sarcastic
Leave
Girl
Nothing
Kind
Cashews
Peanuts

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