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Because we lived in the presence of the church and the convent and the rectory and the school 24-7. And this was an enormous cornerstone in the lives of my entire family. They were all pretty serious Catholic churchgoers.

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Bruce Springsteen
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: September 23
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