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Date Added: June 22, 2008 12:44:01 AM
There probably aren't many university professors able to boast that their aunt was a professional contortionist and can-can dancer. And for whom family visits involved remembering the names of more than 50 first cousins, taking money from punters for the "big wheel" and doing shifts on a candyfloss machine.

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