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You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Peace Activist
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Singer-Songwriter
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I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.
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