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You can go to a history class with one teacher and want to stick a pencil in your throat, and then go to another teacher who is able to contextualize it or deliver the message in a way that you're riveted.

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Walton Goggins
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Actor
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Birmingham
Alabama
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