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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

Alan Alda

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Alan Alda
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: January 28
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