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  • My Daughter Wants Me to Find Her a New Mom

    I hate to use the term “acting out,” so I’ll say that my 3-year-old daughter is expressing a brand-new feeling that she doesn’t know how to articulate: heartbreak. And maybe even desperation. It’s understandable. She wants a mother.  This is just the latest development in what’s been a long, and often hard, story for our…

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    Chad Milner






    Published

    August 4, 2014
  • ‘Free From Their Chains,’ Says the Marvin Gaye Estate. But What About All Those Samples Robin Thicke Already Cleared?

    Soul singer Johnnie Taylor recorded a disco hit in 1976 called “Disco Lady.” Another artist of the era liked the song so much that he felt compelled to compose his own version. It was constructed as an answer, so to speak, to Taylor’s smash hit. And the other artist’s rendition also had listeners crooning about a…

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    Chad Milner






    Published

    March 17, 2015
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