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Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.
Rufus Wainwright
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Rufus Wainwright
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 22
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Rhinebeck (village)
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Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright
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