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Rod McKuen has died, he was 81. In truth I had no idea whether he was still alive or not – I hadn’t (really) thought about him in a while, a product of his era, poet and songwriter, essayist, kisser and teller, he was – for the most part – some sub-Leonard Cohen poet-as-lothario/lothario-as-poet. Although, no, that isn’t quite it.
He was a big name guy –…
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