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I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.

Joe Frazier

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Joe Frazier
Age: 67 †
Born: 1944
Born: January 12
Died: 2011
Died: November 7
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Joseph William Frazier
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