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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.

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Miranda July
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: February 15
Actor
Artist
Film Actor
Film Director
Musician
Screenwriter
Writer
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Vermont
Miranda J. Grossinger
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