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" You could say that Fleetwood Mac is a bit of a dysfunctional family, but we are a family. "
Lindsey Buckingham
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" Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done. "
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