"I'll tell you all my secrets, but I lie about my past " (Tom Waits)
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-peter-falk-20110625,0,1816709,full.story
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At age 3, Falk underwent surgery to remove a malignant tumor that cost him his right eye. He later recalled dreading having anyone ask him what was the matter with his eye. But by the time he was a teenager, his self-consciousness disappeared after he realized he could get a laugh with it.
Once, when he was unfairly called out at third base during a high school baseball game, Falk is said to have taken out his glass eye and offered it to the umpire saying, "You need this more than I do."
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