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This is how it works You peer inside yourself You take the things you like And try to love the things you took And then you take that love you made And stick it into some Someone else's heart Pumping someone else's blood.
Regina Spektor
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Regina Spektor
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 18
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I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.
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