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Lip

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Lip Gallagher is the brilliant but self-destructive second son of the dysfunctional Gallagher family. Despite his exceptional intelligence, he often sabotages himself with reckless behavior, struggling to escape the cycle of poverty and dysfunction that defines his family's existence.

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