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Now I know I'll never be numb again. A mother is condemned to feel everything forever. And I'm finally afraid, condemned to fear everything forever. But that makes sense: feel someone else's pain, feel someone else's everything.And he's my baby, so everything's okay.

Kristin Hersh

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Kristin Hersh
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 7
Composer
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Newport
Rhode Island
Martha Kristin Hersh
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