The Flash Reverses Time (audio only)
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Prince tour, Public Hall, November 21, 1982
By the time I got here, the album
was already history. 1999 dropped in 1982,
when I worried about what I’d do with my life
2026
The Crisis Magazine, June 1967
On the cover, Negro men playing checkers
in the park. Some wear hats, while others wear
waves in their hair. Either way, they’re all clean
and their strategy brims as sharp as their
suits. Within these pages, they’re playing chess,
2024
grand·fa·ther. (noun) 1. the father of one’s father or mother: As in, my father’s father, my grandfather, sharecropped on a farm in Midway, AL. Angry all the time, he fled to Ohio for cleaner work, but the same dirt beat him down through his day. 2. the person who founded or originated something: In 1832, Thomas D.
2022