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It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.

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