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I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

Seth Grahame-Smith

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Seth Grahame-Smith
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: January 4
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Seth Jared Greenberg
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