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It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Always
Likes
Place
Hard
Feel
Feels

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