Phillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the r…

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Phillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to be dead. ✨ Jonathan Tropper (2009). This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel, p.11, Penguin
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