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If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

Anita Baker

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Anita Baker
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 26
Composer
Jazz Musician
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Toledo
Ohio
Anything
Suit
Something
Floor
Birthday
Suits
Dumb
Watching
Eating
Laying
Food
Junk

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