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Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.

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Dick Cavett
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
Actor
Artistic Gymnast
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Screenwriter
Television Presenter
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Gibbon
Nebraska
Richard Alva Cavett
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