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It's daunting trying to do any service as an American to such a beautiful, fluid speech pattern that you [British] all have. We are just barbarians in comparison.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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Jake Gyllenhaal
Age: 43
Born: 1980
Born: December 19
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Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal
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