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demmiblue

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Thu Aug 16, 2018, 12:35 PM Aug 2018

Barack Obama: Aretha helped define the American experience.

Aretha helped define the American experience. In her voice, we could feel our history, all of it and in every shade—our power and our pain, our darkness and our light, our quest for redemption and our hard-won respect. May the Queen of Soul rest in eternal peace.











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Barack Obama: Aretha helped define the American experience. (Original Post) demmiblue Aug 2018 OP
She seemed to me to be a humble woman who took nothing for granted. A wonderful trait. RIP..n/t monmouth4 Aug 2018 #1
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