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When I am able to be present, listening - really listening - to a viewpoint described through someone else's lens, I am here in the now and alive.

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Tori Amos
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: August 22
Composer
Harpsichordist
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Singer-Songwriter
Newton
North Carolina
Myra Ellen Amos
Ari Tomos
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