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I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.

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Mark Ruffalo
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: November 22
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