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“The Social Network” hits theatres today. The biopic details the story of how then-Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook. Now at age 26, there is a movie out about his life, he’s made it to the Forbes List of richest people in the U.S., and he’s become a household name. What would be the movie of your life at age 26? Listeners tell us what they had accomplished by that age.

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