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We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.

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Christopher Bollen
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: November 26
Journalist
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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