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I've got a 15-year old son and a 10-year old daughter, and if they were going to do one of the following things: be an alcoholic be a drug offender beat their wife or husband or gamble. I hope they would gamble.

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Pete Rose
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 14
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