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Profession: Musician
Nationality: English
Birthday: August 28, 1986

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Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.

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All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

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When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.

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I wanted very badly to be a mum. I'm a very maternal person. But at the point that I met Emilio I was focusing on a career. I never would have thought that I would get married at 21 and much less be a mum by 23.

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I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

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I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.

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As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

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I was born and raised in Las Vegas, and then I left there to go to the University of Evansville where I majored in theatre.

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