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When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Cal Ripken, Jr.
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 24
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Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr.
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