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Certainly some guy eating cardboard in Cincinnati has lost any ordinary impetus to review your novel decently if he's just read you just got six figures out of Warner Bros - which incidentally was not true.

William Monahan

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William Monahan
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 3
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