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My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside on the church lawn.

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Tori Amos
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 22
Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
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Myra Ellen Amos
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