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Jan 10, 2023Liked by Esther Cohen

My advice: ONLY go by the second digit. By this calculation, Baez is merely 2. I am much older than she. I'm 8! We are all living the first 10 years of our lives...over and over.

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Hearing her voice makes me also feel young. Thx for writing this!

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Jan 10, 2023Liked by Esther Cohen

Unsure why, but every time I think of her, my mind hears the soaring melody of Farewell Angelina.

She was and is magnificent.

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I love Angelina too

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I didn't understand why she stopped singing publicly when she reached 80, since Dylan, Paul Simon and others are continuing. Something about feeling she couldn't reach the same notes with her voice. When we organized the "When Enemies Dare to Talk" Israeli-Palestinian dialogue in 1978, she came and met with Israeli participants in Jerusalem, and the Palestinian participants on the roof of Dr. Nafaz Nazal. I asked her if she remembered "Earth Angel", and she said "of course, it was the first song I ever sang in public, "and gave an impromptu performance on the roof. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ2AoGgBkLY

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wow

great story Hillel

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