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Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.

Regina Spektor

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Regina Spektor
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 18
Composer
Guitarist
Lyricist
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Moscow
Russian SFSR
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Giants
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