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Confidence as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read I loved to listen to music and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
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