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I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.

Joan Baez

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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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I'd hear a tune in my head and the words would come. And then, very suddenly it just stopped. It seemed too stilted to try and learn how to write a song, to go to round robins and to learn things from other people on how to write a song. So I just stopped and did other things.
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