“People say I'm strange that way,
'Cause I love such elementary things,
It's been my fate to compensate
For the childhood I've never known.”

— Michael Jackson

Childhood
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)

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American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958–2009

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