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I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act of understanding, love and attention can produce the biggest results.

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Alicia Keys
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: January 24
Actor
Art Collector
Composer
Musician
Pianist
Poet
Presenter
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Harlem
New York
Alicia J. Augello Cook
Lives
Turn
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Results
Ideas
Seen
Come
Impossible
Many
Attention
Simplest
Even
Understanding
Biggest
Love
Turns
Embrace
Idea
Produce

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