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I might speed up a few details, but wouldn’t change anything, other than my dad still being here.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That Sparks predates the Beatles and it’s kind of all too obvious where they got a lot of their inspiration.
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