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When you've lived as long as I have, nothing much surprises you.
Michael Scott
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Michael Scott
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 29
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Clergyman
Executive Producer
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Television Producer
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Ken Tremendous
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But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.
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I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.
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