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Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.

Judy Collins

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Judy Collins
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: May 1
Actor
Composer
Guitarist
Pianist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Street Artist
Seattle
Washington
Judith Marjorie Collins
Happened
Suffering
Difficult
Art
Music
Helped
Live
Price
Things
Singing
Alive

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