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Song · 1998 · Country

Wide Open Spaces

1998

★ 6.6 editorial score

Gibson wrote it on her first trip home from forestry school, and Lloyd Maines knew it belonged to his daughter.

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Wide Open Spaces

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Subject

Coming of age Self-reliance Home

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