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The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to.

Yao Ming

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Yao Ming
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 12
Autobiographer
Basketball Player
Entrepreneur
Shanghai
China
Ming Yao
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Journalists
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Impossible
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