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We are content in the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.

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Jim Morrison
Age: 27 †
Born: 1943
Born: December 8
Died: 1971
Died: July 3
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