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If you use a cell phone - as I do - your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.

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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
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Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.
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