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What happens when you're in a crash is you join a crash club, and you talk endlessly about your crash because you don't want to bore your friends with it. And they've heard about the crash so many times.

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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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