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My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.

Joe Torre

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Joe Torre
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 18
Baseball Manager
Baseball Player
Brooklyn
New York
Joseph Paul Torre
Probably
Wife
Right
Sometimes
Oversensitive
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