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Thank you for writing this. You are 100 percent correct.

You may find my reflection on Karen Carpenter interesting.

https://disaffectedpod.substack.com/p/what-you-are-you-have-to-be

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Someone wrote about Karen Carpenter who wasn't me. Thank you.

I miss her more every day. Voice from God that will never come again.

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I was just thinking of Staley. The day they found his body was one of my saddest days. I think about that from time to time, how isolated he had become. I love singing his songs.

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The causality might well run in the other direction. Make enough sad faces and you will feel sad.

Notice how messed up so many child actors end up being. I wonder sometimes if we should have workplace regulations which demand that child actors take an extended break between roles.

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