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I'd been out in Los Angeles for about eight years, knocking around. I actually, instead of waiting tables, worked in offices as a temporary assistant.

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