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I went to a Catholic school. The private school was good - the teachers wanted all of us to have the freedom to think for ourselves. The education was good at the Catholic school, but you only got that one ideology.

Laura Dern

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Laura Dern
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: February 10
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Laura Elizabeth Dern-Harper
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