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For me songs are born out of the gray space, the things I don't fully understand, the things that I can't put in my pocket.
Jon Foreman
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Jon Foreman
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: October 22
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San Bernardino County
California
Jonathan Mark Foreman
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My dying planet needs to see what the body of Christ looks like.
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That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.
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