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  "textContent": "“It was exciting, and I was so confident in my powers then”",
  "title": "“I was fearless. I could write a song immediately in front of the audience, the band would join in, and they had no idea what I was doing! You have to be a little crazy to do something like that”: How Neil Diamond flew by the seat of his pants in the ’70s"
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