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When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

Lauryn Hill

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Lauryn Hill
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: May 26
Actor
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East Orange
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Lauryn Noelle Hill
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