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A personal exemption is added to your tax return automatically, as long as you don't indicate that someone else is claiming you as a dependent. You don't list yourself as a dependent of yourself. Also, a spouse is not a dependent.
You can see whether you claimed a personal exemption by looking at line 42 of your 1040:
Claiming 0 allowances on your W4 is a totally different issue. That simply relates to withholding. Sometimes people claim 0 to have more taxes withheld.
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