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This month: December 2001

(Sex Sells—or Does It?)

Most of our special themed issues are planned well in advance, but in a few cases a theme arrives accidentally, from stories that were assigned independently yet somehow coalesce into a shared idea. For the December 2001 issue, we were looking to spotlight vocalists and were intrigued with the story of Lavay Smith,

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