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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'

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Geena Davis
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 21
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Wareham
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