It’s the summer of 1996. I’m 11 years old; you know that age when most kids are listening to pop, or unfortunately in some cases, punk and emo. I grew up in a household where we listened to nothing but country music.
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Series
Springsteen and Me
I’ve spent forty years trying to figure out if I was "born to run" or just looking for a place to land. In this series, I’m tracing the milestones of my life through the songs of Bruce Springsteen. It’s about the first time a record changed my world, the nights "The River" felt like it was written just for me, and why we never really stop looking for that promised land. Pull up a chair—we’ve got a lot of miles to cover.
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After the Senators game, we went home and listened to the country station in the car on the way. I remember vividly humming the tune and singing the words “in the blink of a young girl’s eye, Glory Days” over and over again.
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