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If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.

Mick Jagger

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Mick Jagger
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 26
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Michael Philip Jagger
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