Some people have four kids, and other people are unmarried with no kids.
People are getting divorced, people are getting married, people are losing parents, finding parents.
So I thought, Thats a really interesting idea to follow these people who are all the same age.

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Then I thought, What if even more directly, metaphorically, they were literally exactly the same age?
I remember thinking, Whoa, thats crazy.
This funny show can also be serious.

And that very quickly became a thing that I was most drawn to.
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