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Walking home on stormy nights, to a house alone, back when you didn’t have music on your phone. I’d duck into a bus stop to change batteries(or the CDs) on the Discman. And I had no idea where I was going – but the songs were lighting the way, keeping me sane, keeping all else at bay. Paul Simon and Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell and Suzanne Vega, Leonard …
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