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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
Jackson Browne
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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.
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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown.
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