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Avril Lavigne is all grown up. Can you handle that?

Avril Lavigne has been famous for half her life, a fact that doesn't strike her as strange, because she doesn't know anything different. She got famous the usual way, but quicker: As a kid in Napanee, Ontario, she sang anywhere she could - local fairs, karaoke, even onstage with Shania Twain after winning a contest. She signed a seven-figure record deal while still in her teens, sold 40 million albums thanks to era-defining hits like "Complicated" and "Sk8r Boi," and settled into an extended run as a very specific kind

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