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...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.
Steve Martin
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Steve Martin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
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Waco
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