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You can’t buy Ayuko Momono’s love or her extensive and enviable Beatles collection. However, the latter might change when the uber Fab Four fan is old enough to sing “When I’m 64.” Classic Beatles dolls, a Fab Four Lego set and first pressing Beatles albums from the U.K. are the among the items, which grab your eye and ear in a bedroom/museum in her north Spokane home. And then there are the replica Beatles instruments.There’s Paul McCartney’s Rickenbacker bass, which was purchased for $300, George Harrison’s Rickenbacker for $450 and John Lennon’s Epiphone Casino guitar to the tune of $800. Momono’s prized possession is the infamous “Butcher Cover,” which was the original art for the “Yesterday and Today” album. T

The cover, which features the Beatles in white lab coats with decapitated baby dolls and raw meat on them, was immediately withdrawn by their label, Capitol.“I feel like the Beatles are in my room,” Momono said. “The Beatles are very important to me. They always have been.”While growing up in Toyohashi, Japan, the Beatles helped Momono, 42, navigate childhood. “I didn’t have a lot of friends at the time,” Momono said. “The Beatles music was my friend. The Beatles saved my life because maybe I was mad at the world. The Beatles were better than the world. I love them so much. The Beatles changed my life in so many ways.”

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