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Making songs that are more famous than me.
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I learned how to play The Wind Cries Mary guitar solo.
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Being able to communicate with people all over the world through my music.
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Convincing my wife to marry me and have children with me.
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Today, at the thought of this awful virus killing more and more people.
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