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To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.
John Denver
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John Denver
Age: 53 †
Born: 1943
Born: December 31
Died: 1997
Died: October 12
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Roswell
New Mexico
Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.
John Deutschendorf Jr.
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