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When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every day.

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Amy Poehler
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 16
Actress
Film Actor
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Newton
Massachusetts
Amy Meredith Poehler
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