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Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't appreciate having.

Adam Duritz

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Adam Duritz
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 1
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Adam Fredric Duritz
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