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    Chance Makes a Plaything of a Person's Life: A View from the Edge: Edgy Observations from a Wandering Underdog
    Chance Makes a Plaything of a Person's Life: A View from the Edge: Edgy Observations from a Wandering Underdog
    Chance Makes a Plaything of a Person's Life: A View from the Edge: Edgy Observations from a Wandering Underdog
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    Chance Makes a Plaything of a Person's Life: A View from the Edge: Edgy Observations from a Wandering Underdog

    By C. D. Bollman

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    Author CD Bollman, alias Arlo Card, is a self-described genius, who lives life on the edge as his own "shrink." Welcome to the inner sanctum of the mind of CD Bollman and the life observations of a wandering underdog.


    How does a self-appointed GENIUS deal with failure? Naturally, he, or she would have to go "intermittently insa

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    Publishercarl bollman
    Release dateDec 23, 2020
    ISBN9781087938233
    Chance Makes a Plaything of a Person's Life: A View from the Edge: Edgy Observations from a Wandering Underdog

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