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I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

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Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.

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Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.

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One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Franz Kafka

Janis Ian

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Born: April 7, 1951 (age 74)
Known for:
  1. Between the Lines (1975)
  2. Breaking Silence (1993)
  3. For All the Seasons of Your Mind (1967)
  4. The Secret Life of J. Eddy Fink (1968)
  5. Aftertones (1976)

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