“It's such a clever innocence with which you do your sorcery
As if somehow the years just bow and let that young girl go free
I thought I was a child, until you turned and smiled”

—  Jackson Browne

I Thought I was Child For Everyman (1973)

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American singer-songwriter 1948

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