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My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.

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Thom Yorke
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: October 7
Composer
Ecologist
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Thomas Edward Yorke
Wobbly
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Hence
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