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There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.

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Josh Radnor
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: July 29
Actor
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Columbus
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Joshua Thomas Radnor
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