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For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.
Walton Goggins
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Walton Goggins
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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Birmingham
Alabama
Walton Sanders Goggins
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