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Harry, to Nelson 'Don't forget, there's a Depression coming.'

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• Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.

  

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• Harry, to Nelson 'Don't forget, there's a Depression coming.'

  

  John Updike
  • Depression