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[My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a mining disaster on a shift that he wasn't working. And he was in a collapse where his brother-in-law was killed very near him in the same section.

Dwight Yoakam

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Dwight Yoakam
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: October 23
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