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Just an instinct, but I think reading more Mark Twain.
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Less pizza – living on tour is not conducive to eating healthily.
A dog. (I don't have one because we're back and forth over the Atlantic and it would be cruel to leave it.)
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Either shredding duck in a Chinese restaurant, or Oblivion.
It used to be myself, but I am over that now.
I have quite a collection of ironic band T shirts.
Being friends with all of the people I grew up with.
Right now, terrifying.
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