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When I saw the movie Magnolia, in 1999, and heard this poignant and emotional song, I had to buy it. The words and music of Aimee Mann's Wise Up reaches into your soul, rips it out and makes you look at it, blood dripping from your hands. "See what you did with your life, asshole?

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