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Old pictures look very rugged and young, and the people in the photographs always seem a lot happier than you are.

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Stephen Chbosky
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 25
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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