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We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.

Miranda July

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Miranda July
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: February 15
Actor
Artist
Film Actor
Film Director
Musician
Screenwriter
Writer
Barre
Vermont
Miranda J. Grossinger
Unknowable
Nobody
Maybe
Wanted
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