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I think a lot of things are written from experience, but then you become a writer and talk about other people's experience and you tell stories. I mean, you can't just tell your own story all the time.

Eddie Vedder

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