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It takes a very very strong individual not to be corrupt in any of those things as time moves on. Myself and other people who went that road and experienced that world, some got a second birth of life and some is in the dirt.
Bernard Hopkins
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Bernard Hopkins
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 15
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