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When all my friends insisted that they were feeling jaded, it struck me as an affected pose. To me, everything is always new.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Friends
Feelings
Everything
Jaded
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