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For the first thirty years of my life I exercised very little, and I smoked cigarettes for ten or twelve years, and I ate junk food. And I began to see some elders in my community's health decline, and I didn't want that to happen to me.

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Jason Mraz
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: June 23
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Richmond
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