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So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

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James Earl Jones
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 17
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Dub Actor
Film Actor
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