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When I am performing, and when my kids make musical mayhem.
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The day our daughter was born, or maybe fishing on the Colorado river with my wife and brother and his buddy Earl.
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When I found out that I was having my baby. They told me I was having a little girl and I named it Elizabeth. Then, when the baby was born it was my beautiful boy, Mark.
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At the beginning of lockdown; it was just me and my new baby and my partner in the house. It was lovely.
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