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Jay McShann

"My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues."

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Donna Grant

"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

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Donna Grant

"Blessed is the womb that born you."

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Donna Grant

"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

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Donna Grant

"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

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Donna Grant

"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

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Donna Grant

"Children are angels."

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Donna Grant

"We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers."

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Donna Grant

"Wrapped in a mother's love is the most beautiful and safest place on earth for a child."

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Donna Grant

"A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me like sudden lightning. I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching-they are your family. And they were my heroes."

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Donna Grant

"A new baby is a bundle of hope, a smiling imagination, and a dancing dreams."

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Jay McShann
"My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues."

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Jay McShann
"We didn't let a night go by that we didn't play."

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Jay McShann
"I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him."

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"I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music."

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Jay McShann
"It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn."

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"They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words."

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"We had an old Victrola with the old bulldog they used to have there. The horn would come out."

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Jay McShann
"We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands."

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