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I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.

John Darnielle

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John Darnielle
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Composer
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Bloomington
Indiana
Anything
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