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Allison, you take all the time you need. These stories about your tunes are gifts well worth waiting for. Thank you.

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I can't tell you what reading these means to me. Your albums have been the soundtrack for my entire adult life, and I have a memory for every song. Getting the chance to share in your memories of where you, too, were in your life has been a gift that I don't take lightly. Thank you for sharing them with us.

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I can see you somehow taking the experience of not listening to your instincts and letting someone else control you into a novel.

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Thank you for writing this. It lifted me up. ❤️

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I discovered your music (and fell in love with your voice*) with The Hardest Part. That album just killed, in my opinion. However those songs came to be, your vocals just “contained multitudes” of ache & yearning.

I pressed that record into so many hands and, to a person, they loved it, too. Reading about the grit and heartache that went into making it is making it new all over again. Take your time - and thank you for chronicling the process.

*Some voices just knock me out and stick with me: Raul Malo, Phoebe Snow, Patsy Cline, Cleo Laine, Tom Waits, Elly Ameling, Maria McKee …. the list is long and includes yours.

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Your comment on the great joke of life is so true - the great shame of life is that some never figure out how to live it.

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"Life is school." I've never heard it worded like that but it's absolutely correct. I'm a lot older than you and I'm still learning. Whether it's learning more about human nature or all the stuff involved in rebuilding my house after a fire. I wish you good luck on the remodeling. At least I don't have to live in the midst of the mess.

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Thank you for sharing this. So wise. ♥️🙏☀️

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Thank you for posting this one it really got to me, emotionally, and spiritually ❤

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Always love reading your musings and wisdom, and agree wholeheartedly.. we are all here in “earth school”!

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Allison, thank you for trusting us and loving us enough to share this with us. Pretty damned brave. I'm supposing that this community of folks here loves you a whole bushel full. I know I do and am always here to listen and to give love. I look forward to knowing more about the songs you do and anything else.

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"Some days we feel like we never really get anywhere. Then we look back and our jaws drop" This totally validates where I am in life right now. Hell, I'm gonna paint sign that says this! Onward.

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Just for the record, everything you write is a life lesson in courage and compassion.

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Honor who you were then as you embrace learning and growth going forward. You were where you were meant to be as you are now. Enjoy the journey!

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It means a great deal to me the way you share so much with all the world. Like others, I take a lot from it. In this post, you remind me of things about myself from when I was around 20. It's hard to explain, but I have a lot of things that bring me sadness and shame from that time. As I have grown older, I've spent a lot of time figuring out who I wanted to be and how I was going to get there...and I'm closer but still working at it. All that said, my biggest takeaway is that I remember even in my darkest days I was loved for who I was then and those special people could see the light in me when my personal existence was so very dark. For that I am forever grateful and also humbled.

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Of all your talents, your authenticity shines the most.

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