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Posted on March 26, 2013, 11:37 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

Court reporting was a strange job, sometimes exciting, sometimes boring and frustrating. I had “theme songs” for both moods. For the more wistful one, there was Carly Simon’s Libby. For times when the life seemed a gradually-unfolding adventure, there was the Bee Gees’ How Deep Is Your Love.

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The Class Life and the Sex Life of the Collegian

Posted on June 18, 2011, 10:21 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

But in the end I passed that test. After agonizing over it for a few days, I sent Cindy a letter telling as much of the truth as I could bear to tell.

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