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A baseball pitcher.
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As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?Originally asked
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What I am now, but with a better singing voice.
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When I was a child, it was a bus driver or engine driver; then, when I was a teenager, I went to the theatre and wanted to be an actor.
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