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Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention.

Robert Downey, Jr.

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Robert Downey, Jr.
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: April 4
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Robert John Downey Jr.
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