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Sly Stone

How are you feeling these days? I feel good in my mind, but my health is not very good. I have COPD, which reduces my lung capacity, and other problems too. For part of this year I couldn’t hear almost at all until I got a hearing aid.

People liked to say there were two personalities in me. A doctor said it when I was in rehab, that Sylvester

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