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I grew up eating hamburger helper, macaroni and cheese, and drinking lots of milk, and looked at lots of cows but I feel like a New Yorker now, I've lived here for sixteen years.

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Adam Rapp
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 15
Film Director
Novelist
Joliet
Illinois
Feels
Milk
Macaroni
Years
Lots
Hamburger
Like
Drinking
Helpers
Looked
Yorker
Eating
Hamburgers
Lived
Sixteen
Grew
Cows
Feel
Cheese
Helper

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