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I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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Leonard Norman Cohen
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