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If you calculate every single thing you could possibly need in your life, you would need no more than 200 people to keep all that afloat: a doctor, food, wine, cheese-eating friends, the person who makes paper, the shoemaker.
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Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: February 13
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Amherst
Nova Scotia
Leslie Feist
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