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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.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Mary Chapin Carpenter
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 21
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