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What I want people to recognize is that we have to keep working together and take charge because we all have the same story.
Nick Cave
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Nick Cave
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: September 22
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Nicholas Edward Cave
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Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.
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