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Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce.
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Sufjan Stevens
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 1
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