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Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.
Kevin Rudd
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Kevin Rudd
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: September 21
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Kevin Michael Rudd
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