I don’t know and I don’t really care, because I’ll be dead, so it won’t really matter.
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Disneyland x a million.
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I think our kids take our stuff!
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“I have it on very good authority he’s a complete cunt.”
This morning, in a really great conversation with my dad.
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Football player of the year 4th XI 2002.
One of the first TV appearances that our band made in America, on the Craig Ferguson show. I forgot the lyrics to Little Lion Man and then broke two strings.
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