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Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
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