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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
Abel Ferrara
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Abel Ferrara
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 18
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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