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" I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood. "

Seth MacFarlane

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" I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town. "

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