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Barbra Streisand’s Evergreen from A Star Is Born or You’ll Never Walk Alone from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 November 2019 source ↗
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Impatience and temper. Enough already!
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