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Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
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Bombay
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Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
Unfinished
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