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'I Will Not Be Broken' has really become very healing for me. Any time you go through a cataclysmic event... it's going to inform the richness that you sing from... The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.

Bonnie Raitt

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Bonnie Raitt
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 8
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Burbank
California
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