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Every person with a disability has a slightly different kind of disability. Not everybody has the same problems. Usually the wheelchairs are the wheelchairs. It's the same height and so on. It's a problem.
Itzhak Perlman
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Itzhak Perlman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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