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...stationery. He wrote letters that said more than he could say in person. It's odd to think that the man who has been called the Great Communicator was often shy with others, yet it's true. As I grew older and went away to school, I knew the thick letters from my father were outpourings from his heart and head, and could only have happened when he picked up his fountain pen and began writing...
...forever fixed in Gilley's brain. Twenty-four hours earlier, the country-music legend had received a call at his home in Pasadena, Texas, summoning him to the site. Upon seeing the charred ruins, Gilley, a showman to the core, with a diamond-encrusted "MG" necklace and absurdly thick hair, turned to a bandmate and asked, "How am I gonna keep you guys working...
...dogs, which number between three and five at any given time and are always of the larger variety, wander around the front yard, growling at passersby. The entire mess is barely contained by an old chain-link fence, over which grow ivy and morning glory so thick that the wires are no longer visible. The ivy hangs in a curtain around her porch and climbs up to the top of the house, twining itself around her chimney. Her walls are crumbling under the ivy’s grasp, and she repairs the holes in the windows with plastic...
...Once you’re in the thick of it, whether you’re playing well or not seems to go out the window. It doesn’t seem to matter as much [as when we are recording]. And I kind of like that, because I’m a wimp. It’s gotten to a point where [the shows are] a madhouse. Which is what we’ve always sort of been pushing for,” Chippendale said...
...around to see the change. There were two stages. The first time I tried to get it all chopped off, the hairdresser told me she’d still keep me looking “feminine.” Before she started with the scissors, my thick hair was down to the middle of my back. I swear I could hear a soft thud as the stylist’s sharp scissors gently sliced off one lock at a time. As I watched the pile of hair on the floor continue to grow, I was seized with a temporary paranoia...