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How Does Jimmy Valentine Change
Jimmy Valentine has dramatically changed and I mean it as no joke, Mr. Briggs! He has changed, he is a new person with good intentions Jimmy Valentine is also about to get married and that young lady Annabel helped him change, be a new man with a new character. I saw with my own eyes how he saved those two children from dying when they got locked in the safe.
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