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tape and was given Songs You Know
By Heart. As a tongue in cheek nod to ! ! !
his "Margaritaville" standard, next to
the title the words in the parentheses " " " " "!" " " "
note that the subtitle of the album is his " " "
'Greatest Hit.' Not a typo!
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I could not get enough, so for Christ- " "
mas I requested his boxed set known
as Boats, Beaches, Bars, and Ballads.
I listened to those songs over and of this article. It's not. Just like seeing things, "Highway Don't Care" by Tim

Alaska, words and even pictures cannot McGraw and Taylor Swift. While I am
over and over again, oft en becoming
do a Buff ett show justice. You have to a fan of neither, I let the song play as
annoyed about why they were never
experience one firsthand to appreciate some undefined emotion frothed in

played on the radio. But instead of
going on the attack, I knew that going it and then a bunch more to completely my chest. Was it anger? Maybe. I was
make sure the hypothesis about a at least offended, not on the level of
to a concert was next. I have been to
guaranteed good time is adequately Karening, but I remember thinking
more than a few, and enjoyed myself
supported. to myself as I considered requesting
immensely.
to speak to the manager of the radio
Instead, I am taking you in your mind
Readers might have expected the station, that in my experience, "THE
to me sitting at a red light in Anne
concert experience to be the climax HIGHWAY DOES IN FACT CARE."
Arundel County listening to, of all
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