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Give me about 24 hours to edit the text and add some things ... it's a "start" for someone famous and interesting.
I pulled the tag for now. Please bear in mind that verbatim sentences can't be used from copyrighted sites. Feel free to paraphrase, (as I see you've started to do in the intro), but just not direct copies of the text. Thanks!