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" I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father. "
Annette Funicello
Father
Disney
Always
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" My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbilly music part of it, and all that music came over from Scotland and Ireland and England in to the Appalachian Mountains and Ozark Mountains, where I was raised. "
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