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It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.

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Susan Orlean
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 31
Journalist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Hard
Supremely
Thomas
Assured
Imagine
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Anything
Self

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