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The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.

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Jessica Lange
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: April 20
Actress
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Television Actor
Cloquet
Minnesota
Jessica Phyllis Lange
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