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If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.
Jim Valvano
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Jim Valvano
Age: 47 †
Born: 1946
Born: March 10
Died: 1993
Died: April 28
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James Thomas Anthony Valvano
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