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On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.

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Alan Moore
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: November 18
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