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My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.

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Nick Offerman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 26
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