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She's a shiksa goddess and a trapeze artist, all of that. She can fix the truck...she's outta this world...she's bold, inventive and fearless. That's who you wanna go in the woods with, right? Somebody who finishes your sentences for you.

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Tom Waits
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
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Thomas Alan Waits
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