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We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms.

Jonathan Tropper

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Jonathan Tropper
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 19
Executive Producer
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