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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice.

Eddie Vedder

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