"I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.“


-Mayer Hawthorne

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I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.

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