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I just thought that I was going to get to sing for a living and I wouldn't have to go to work in the department store or whatever else you did if you were a woman in those days.

Linda Ronstadt

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Linda Ronstadt
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: July 15
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Linda Maria Ronstadt
Linda Marie Ronstadt
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