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All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.

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James Frey
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 12
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Cleveland
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James Christopher Frey
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