Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal

Jimmy Doom's Roulette Weal

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I gotta admit I laughed when the MUA told me they were fitting me to make my septum slightly off center, like Roger Troub.

When they suggested I wear his Carrival cologne it made more sense to me. Though the film audience could never smell it, of course, the scent would help me feel like another person-a man I had very little in common with.

I worked for weeks on his walk, a slight hitch that originated in his hip.

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