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How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

Ruby Wax

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Ruby Wax
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: April 19
Comedian
Journalist
Stage Actor
Evanston
Illinois
Sympathy
Sick
Except
Brain
Body
Come
Every
Organ
Organs

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