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Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?
Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Mary Chapin Carpenter
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 21
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About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
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I was a liberal arts junkie and I figured, well, I'll go work for somebody somewhere. All I knew was that I was going to have to come home and figure it out.
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I grew up listening to everything, and when I got signed to a record deal out of Nashville, that was my introduction to what was happening in country music.
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So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night.
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I love to write songs and sing them, and I didn't really know much more than that. Somehow it's gotten to the point where a friend can say, It's very you, and that made me feel good.
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I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.
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I've crossed lines of word and wire and both have cut me deep. I've been frozen out and I've been on fire, and the tears are mine to weep.
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I was really young, but I can't say that I wrote much of anything. I liked to scribble I thought of it as that. But I was playing guitar and ukulele when I was in second grade.
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Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?
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God forgives somehow we have yet to learn the same.
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