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Surrealism to me is reality. Psychedelic vision is reality to me and always was.

John Lennon

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John Lennon
Age: 40 †
Born: 1940
Born: October 9
Died: 1980
Died: December 8
Actor
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City of Liverpool
John Winston Ono Lennon
John Winston Lennon
Lennon John
John Ono Lennon
Vision
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