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The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.

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Barbara Walters
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 25
Journalist
News Presenter
Television Presenter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Barbara Jill Walters
Fidel
Castro
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Feeling
Actually
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