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The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

Alfred Adler

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Alfred Adler
Age: 67 †
Born: 1870
Born: February 7
Died: 1937
Died: May 28
Ophthalmologist
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Psychotherapist
Vienna
Austria
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