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If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.
Will Smith
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Will Smith
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 25
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Willard Carroll Smith Jr.
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Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me.
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