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Fleming would often wash away the cocktail hangovers with an early morning swim before settling down to write at 'Goldeneye', his hideaway on Jamaica's north shore
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The Man with the Golden Pen
Fleming would often wash away the cocktail hangovers with an early morning swim before settling down to write at 'Goldeneye', his hideaway on Jamaica's north shore, which he purchased after the Second World War.

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