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I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.

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Sherman Alexie
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 7
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Wellpinit
Washington
Sherman Joseph Alexie
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