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Listening to Iris DeMent singing Our Town, because of her voice and the truth of what she is singing about, which is that small towns and communities are dying all over.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 December 2016 source ↗
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A few nights ago I was crying in my sleep, dreaming of my dead parents.
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I cry a lot. Especially on planes. What is that about? On a plane, I’ll be in floods at The Good Dinosaur.
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