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When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral.

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Noah Baumbach
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 3
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
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Fantasize
Funeral
Kids

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