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

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
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Feel
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From a very young age, I was the kind of kid you can just put anywhere and I'd still find stuff to be stoked about.
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I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.
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