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Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

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Bob Dylan
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: May 24
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