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Leona Helmsley's dog made $12 million last year... and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio, made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains.

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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
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