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It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!

Wendelin Van Draanen

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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
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Chicago
Illinois
Humiliating
Embarrassing
Ego
Beyond
Even
Mortifying
Slaying

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