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He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.

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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
Sure
Stoned
Gone
Halfway
Like
Kick
Kicks
Alcohol
Sick
Drug
Wind
Methadone

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