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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.

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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