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Perhaps one feels more pain when parents are there. It's like when you're hungry, you know, it's worse to get a symbol of a cheeseburger than no cheeseburger at all. It doesn't do you any good, you know.

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Yoko Ono
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: February 18
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City of Tokyo
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