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Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own.
Tom Waits
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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
Actor
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Guitarist
Jazz Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Pomona
California
Thomas Alan Waits
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I was always laughing in church.
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