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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it they'll just make another one.

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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
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