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In the year 1977, legendary hunk Brad Pitt was a 14-year-old tube sock-wearing basketball player in Springfield, Missouri, just tryin' to master the layup. Before he was married to world's sexiest woman, and the star of weird Chanel commercials, he was a puny eighth grader with a pageboy haircut that is oddly similar to Anna Wintour's and every child under the age of eight in the mid-'80s through the '90s. After being rejected by the basketball team at his middle school, he created his own and called it the "Cherokee Rejects." Looks like Brad's a self-starter with a sense of humor.
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