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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
Alan Alda
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Alan Alda
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: January 28
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Alphonso Joseph D’Abruzzo
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