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I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

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Tyler Perry
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 14
Actor
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Emmitt Perry Jr.
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