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I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.

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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
Film Actor
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Leonard Norman Cohen
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