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You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past.

Bruce Springsteen

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Bruce Springsteen
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: September 23
Guitarist
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Long Branch
New Jersey
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen
The Boss
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