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PERSONALITY TITHE: A price paid for becoming a couple previously amusing human beings become boring: 'Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight. Afterward we're going to watch the shopping channel.

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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