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Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People.

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Meredith Brooks
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: June 12
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Oregon City
Oregon
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I quickly learned to take anger and use it to motivate me. My sister ran away from home, and she was my world. And that was that. The guitar became my world.
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