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If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s.

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Tom Hanks
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 9
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Thomas Jeffrey Hanks
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