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Nerves are normal. You can't be cured from them unless you're a machine.

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Venus Williams
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: June 17
Entrepreneur
Tennis Player
Writer
Lynwood
USA
Venus Ebony Starr Williams
Nerves
Machine
Machines
Normal
Unless
Cured

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