“For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.”

— Jeff Lindsay, book Darkly Dreaming Dexter

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American playwright and crime novelist Jeffry P. Freundlich 1952

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