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I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

Juliana Hatfield

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Juliana Hatfield
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 27
Autobiographer
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Curse
Stop
Music
Make
Compulsion
Obsession

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