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Jimmy Smith

"I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns."

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"I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns."

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"Susan, an only child who never had any roots, and I, a lone wolf who got married 20 years to late, were adopted by the kids as much as they were by us."

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