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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
Joni Mitchell
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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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Roberta Joan Anderson
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We'll laugh and toast to nothing, and smash our empty glasses down.
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My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.
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Fibers in a variety of colors protrude out of my skin like mushrooms after a rainstorm. They cannot be forensically identified as animal, vegetable or mineral.
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