Perhaps it's his easy way of communicating or his ever present laughter.

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Let him laugh and I see a cellar your father does not remember and a house he does not remember and I hear in his present laughter his laughter as a child.

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We've been down this road before, most recently with the disappointing 2010 Broadway revival of Coward's "Present Laughter, " in which Victor Garber was so much older than the role he was playing that the script had to be altered to cover up the fact.

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