So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

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One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to...

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So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy -...

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You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance...

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I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and...