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Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind.

Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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