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I wrote when I was a young teen, but I didn't put an eye on the available markets until I was seventeen. The next ten years felt like a self-centered experiment in personal abuse.
Robert Reed
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Robert Reed
Age: 59 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 19
Died: 1992
Died: May 12
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