This is the man leading.
Art is a great thing, couldn’t buy it, not in a hundred years.
He had three daughters, he got sick from age of 14 for many years, got sent to do work for the country, sang during those times. He got separated from his parents at age 11. These are not happy songs for him, they were consolations during sadness. He was also known as a playboy, the women teased him, his wife came in and made jokes about another girl he used to sing and flirt with. But now his wife had a lot of nice things to say about him, she is happy. He is not happy, he thinks his life has had too much sadness for him to be happy.
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