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Jimmy Valentine Research Paper

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Would you change your lifestyle to be with someone you love. Well that is what Jimmy Valentine did to marry Annabelle. Jimmy Valentine is a robber who served ten months of a four year sentence. He robbed banks, and he was the person who cracked open the safes. He also had a special talent of cracking safes in a short amount of time. Jimmy Valentine did try to live a moral life by selling his tools, changed his name to Ralph Spencer, and moved somewhere where there aren't any banks.

The first reason he tried to live a moral life is when he got out of jail he sold his tools. When Jimmy finally got out of jail the first thing he did was get on a train and grab his tools, so he could sell them. He sold them because he didn’t want something

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