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Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real I'm still going to wake up.'

Michael Phelps

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Michael Phelps
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: June 30
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Baltimore
Maryland
Michael Fred Phelps II
The Baltimore Bullet
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