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Now, let's get to today's story, Pizzou Algarad's House of Horror.

Now, as you might have already guessed, Pizzou Algarad's original name was not Puzzuzu.

He was born John Alexander Lawson to an average American family on August 12, 1978, in San Francisco, California.

His parents, Cynthia, and Timothy Lawson, divorced in 1990.

Thus, Pizzou grew up in the care of his mother in Clements, North Carolina, where they moved.

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