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Behind every successful person, stands a very successful mother-in-law.

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Lou Holtz
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 6
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I was born January 6, 1937, eight years after Wall Street crashed and two years before John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath, his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the plight of a family during the Great Depression.
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