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I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.

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Steven Wright
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: December 6
Comedian
Film Director
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Steven Alexander Wright
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Clothes
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Slinkies
Comedy
Escalator
Wonderful
Macy
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Escalators
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