Silent Night

[luciensteiner]

Dear Lisa,

I was looking for something on YouTube and ran into the famous recording of Mahalia Jackson singing Silent Night, which made my mother cry every single time she listened to it. I've been speaking a lot about my mother in this journal. And I've been thinking a lot about her. Telling people her stories, even dusting off pictures of her to

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[luciensteiner]

Thank you for reading this particular post and for your incredibly perceptive comment. I quite understand your reluctance in reading actors autobiographies. Most people don't know that publishers pay a fortune for stars to write about their lives, but since the investment is so high they include in the contract the right to tell the star what he/she's going to write about. They tell the stars (or their ghostwriters) to expand certain parts and shorten or delete altogether other parts