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Don Draper

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Don Draper is a brilliant, complex and deeply flawed advertising executive in 1960s New York City, haunted by a traumatic past and struggling to maintain a carefully curated public persona that masks his true identity as a former identity thief. As he navigates the high-powered world of Madison Avenue, Don's personal life is marked by a series of failed marriages, alcoholism and womanizing, as he grapples with his own demons and the consequences of his deceptions.

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