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I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.
Joan Jett
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Joan Jett
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: September 22
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So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on I've been there. I know what the press would do.
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