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I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
Dies
Many
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Decent
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Lifetime
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