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Billy Vera: Still In The Game

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AAJ: Also, if you don't mind, I was going to ask you how you would like to be remembered?

BV: I'd like to be remembered as someone who worked at being his own man, both as a performer and as a person, and as someone who kept the flame alive, making sure the stories of the old times and the old players got told right.

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