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If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”

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A. J. Jacobs
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
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