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    Still Dancing

    Apr 05, 2022 2 minutes
    By Susan J. Decuir

    Mom loved music. While doing her household chores in our modest North Dallas, Texas, home, she was sure to have her beautiful, old-fashioned, upright walnut radio tuned to the popular music of the 1950s and ’60s. Those songs had a great impact on me with lyrics that spoke to my tender teenage heart.

    If you are from my generation or Paul Anka’s r or one of Brenda Lee’s sad songs or —you can probably hear the words and melodies playing in your head about now.

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