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New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.

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Maureen Johnson
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 16
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Motivation
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Musicals
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