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" It's a struggle for anybody to take their paradigms and set of beliefs and understandings and completely flip the script. "
Matt Bomer
Flip
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" I remember taking my brother's car out, pushing it down the driveway in neutral in the night, and going out joyriding with friends and getting flat tires and getting busted. My license was revoked by my dad. So, definitely, I was a kid. I was a teenage boy. "
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