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SHANNON LAY on The Simpsons

just love I’ve reflected on why it’s been so important to me. And I think it’s because it’s one of the most consistent things in my life. They are still doing new ones, so there hasn’t been a day I’ve been hasn’t been on the air. [Lay was born in 1991, two years after the show’s debut.]

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