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That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

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Michael Lewis
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: October 15
Author
Journalist
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Michael M. Lewis
Always
Thirty
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Seven
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