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Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

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Paul McCartney
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
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