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You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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