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The first half of high school, I had a girlfriend, and then the second half I got to know these guys who would just get stoned and jam. I had struck the goth thing by then, but I still thought of myself as Ian Curtis or something.

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Ariel Pink
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 24
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