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We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

Yakov Smirnoff

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Yakov Smirnoff
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: January 24
Actor
Comedian
Odesa
Yakov Naumovich Pokhis
May
Fairy
Ever
Tales
Live
Forgotten
Feel
Teaching
Feels
Nobody
Teacher
Comedy
Heard
Happily

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