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You don't understand what makes you understand what makes your life better until you take something that makes it so much worse and you embrace that.

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Adam Duritz
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 1
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Baltimore
Maryland
Adam Fredric Duritz
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