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How come I can pick my ears, but not my nose? Who made up that rule anyway? How can you say that's the way it is, that's just the way it goes, why don't you decide fore yourself what you can do?

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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