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I think my children have presented one of the biggest lessons so far in my life. It was only when my kids were born that I realized just how much I'd been living my life worried about what everybody thought of me and, even more strangely, worried about what I imagined other people might be thinking about me.

Grant Bowler

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Grant Bowler
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: July 18
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