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When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

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Alain Robert
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 7
Rock Climber
Robert Alain Philippe
the French Spider-Man
Climbed
Forgot
Apartment
Keys
Seven
Simply
Parent
Floors

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