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Your fear that your parents will actually kill you for dropping out of college is something that I think a lot of children of immigrants would maybe relate to.
Mindy Kaling
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Mindy Kaling
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: June 24
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Cambridge
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Vera Mindy Chokalingam
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