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I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything you can only draw them in.
Bruce Springsteen
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Bruce Springsteen
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: September 23
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