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It's sort of irritating now - people always ask me, You're a dad, and how's fatherhood? If Bob Dylan or Neil Young had a kid, it didn't seem like it made them a different person. It didn't make you old right away.

Stephen Malkmus

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Stephen Malkmus
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: May 30
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Santa Monica
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Stephen Joseph Malkmus
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