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I had this crazy job, though, when I first got to Los Angeles... I answered this ad in the back of the newspaper to be a telephone psychic, and I did that for two days.

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Jenna Fischer
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: March 7
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I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.
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