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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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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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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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I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.
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I never was a very good singer.
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
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