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It's a mystery to me We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.

Eddie Vedder

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Eddie Vedder
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: December 23
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Chicago
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Eddie Jerome Vedder
Edward Louis Severson III
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