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My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.
Gregory Maguire
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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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