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Burns was born July 29, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, the older of two sons born to Robert Kyle and Lyla Smith (nee Tupper) Burns. At the time of his son's birth, Robert Burns was a graduate student studying cultural anthropology at Columbia University.

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