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Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
Guitarist
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Roberta Joan Anderson
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