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In today's world, you would call my father mostly unaccessible. I'm not sure that isn't true of most fathers at that time. He went through the Depression. I don't know what that would have done to my psyche.
Bob Newhart
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Bob Newhart
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 5
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