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The Life and Times of Lulan Robert James Smith

Robert James Smith was born February 3rd, 1959. His family lived next door to the grandma of one Lawrence Andrew Tolhurst. The late 1970s in England were 'brutal' and everyone was on the dole. Crawley is an important part of this story. It's a suburb 20 miles from London but it might as well be another planet.

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