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...Seattle has unleashed this weird phenomenon on the world called the coffee shop. And the coffee shop, thanks to Starbucks, is the place where socially isolated, lonely, needy people gather together to ignore one another.

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Mark Driscoll
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 11
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