Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
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“Well, I make that one murder victim, one police interrogation and one conversation with a ghost,” George said. “Now that’s what I call a busy evening.”
Lockwood nodded. “To think some people just watch television.”
— Jonathan Stroud, book The Whispering Skull
Source: The Whispering Skull
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