The publisher describes the novel as the coming-of-age story of a gifted young man whose search for meaning leads him to New York, England, Paris and a mission patrolling the demilitarized zone in Korea.

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Cicero was a political outsider from a small town near Rome, but he was a brilliant man and gifted speaker, with a burning desire to gain the highest office in the ancient republic.

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He loved them, especially his father, a gifted and creative man.

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His father was an heir to the Schilling spice fortune a gifted, troubled man who could never quite settle on a career and slowly fell to drink.

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The deceased was a gifted and accomplished man who spent his short time on this planet investing in others, building into those who needed it the most, and serving those who others often ignored.

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The public believe Harry is a special and gifted young man, the source said.

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He was never a systematic thinker, but he was a fascinatingly complex man gifted with an exceptionally responsive mind.

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By now, he was a middle-aged man going on fifty, so the musically gifted child was just a sad memory.

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