Yourstru.ly
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- Abhi//Dijon - Yours Truly
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- I think we should begin with Whitney. In March of 1991, Whitney Houston played Norfolk Naval Station, in Virginia, for about 3,000 people. The First Persian Gulf War had ended a month earlier, so deployments were ending. There is no more abjectly emotional place than a dock when a ship comes back home. You wake up really early and you try to look nice. It’s always irritatingly cold by the water. You make your way to the slip with hundreds of people who are on the precipice of seeing their man, or their little brother, or their granddaughter for the first time in six months. When my mother and her three kids were doing this with my father, there was no such thing as FaceTime or Gchat or email. When I was doing this with my brother, it didn’t fucking matter. If somebody’s child was born while they were away, that’s who walks down the ramp first. You and those hundreds of gaping wide open people watch this man meet his baby for the first time. You watch a toddler not quite recognize ...
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