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It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.

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Yo-Yo Ma
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 7
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