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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward if you go forward, you have to jump together.

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Yo-Yo Ma
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 7
Actor
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Music Pedagogue
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Paris
France
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