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It's life's illusions that I recall, I really don't know life at all

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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.
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Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all in the tissue and it's not a hallucination. It was eating me alive, sucking the juices out. I've been sick all my life.
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When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.
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