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Laurent Moutier

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Old Laurent Moutier* was gone, at the age of ninety, taking with him like everyone does a lifetime of unknown private hopes and dreams and fears and experiences, and leaving behind him like most people do a thin trace of himself in his living descendants.

* Jack Reacher's maternal grandfather

Lee Child (in the story Second Son)

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