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Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.
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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In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge, and in the moment they were swept before the deluge.
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The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.
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I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all moved in.
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