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Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.

Jimmy Buffett

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Jimmy Buffett
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 25
Actor
Aircraft Pilot
Autobiographer
Entrepreneur
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Musician
Novelist
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Singer-Songwriter
Pascagoula
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James William Buffett
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