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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

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Fred Allen
Age: 61 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 31
Died: 1956
Died: March 17
Actor
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Radio Personality
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
John Florence Sullivan
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