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college auditorium. One little girl, who Orman estimates was aged seven or eight, approached him for a hug, a regular occurrence. He noticed her hug, wrapping around his neck, was "unusually ardent, almost desperate quality of…embrace". Orman later discovered that he was the first adult male she had
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became the third Gordon in 1974, a role he kept until 2016. "The kids who were on the show that first season would not accept me as Gordon," Orman remarked. "One day there's Hal as Gordon and the next day there's this new guy who says he's Gordon...the kids, both on the show and at home...they just
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