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- ↑ "Setlists: 2000". Backstreets.com. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
- ↑ Wosahla, Steve (January 30, 2016). "Bruce Springsteen Opens His Storybook--And Ours". No Depression. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
