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And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain.

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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