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When my father died, I'd just gotten Yoko Ono's cd "Rising" and Lou Reed's "Magic & Loss." (mid-'90s) I love Ono and Reed, and grew pretty obsesssed with this music. None of it is directly about my feelings for my Dad or his death. But somehow it is all about the depth and width of great feeling such as mourning & grief and the contemplation of mortality and then life too. I still stop what I'm doing when I hear this music, but it is with depth of feeling, not sadness. I'm deeply grateful to Ono & Reed.
Barbara

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