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Someone Must Have Sent That To Kemp, Or, Not Enough Friends

Posted on August 26, 2012, 2:55 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

The way I became familiar with the piece is a sort of a shaggy dog story of lonely young people leveraging what social assets they had, and making do with what was available.

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Rounding Second Base

Posted on February 22, 2011, 10:29 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

This Casanova stuff was terribly exciting, but in the psychotherapeutic language we all use today, I needed to process it. And that’s when I had my California Girls moment.

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The Big Picture and the Closeup

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