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Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this.

Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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Douglas Campbell Coupland
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