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When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'
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Tori Amos
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 22
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Myra Ellen Amos
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