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12/29-30 Paranount theater Huntington NY 12/31-1/1 Palace theater Albany NY

So, I pull into the laundromat a few years ago and this woman is sitting on a bench out front. As I walk away from my truck and towards her and the laundromat, she starts singing Box of Rain to me. (She saw my license plate, BOXRAIN) we became friends, needless to say. She’s a wildlife artist, has Done some things with Native American themes also. She had a son who committed suicide at 24 years of age. She told me they played Ripple at his funeral. I hadn’t run into her in town for a few years but got a call from her recently. She’s moving to Ohio to live with her daughter, getting too old to live alone. (Gotta be in her eighties). They’re going through the house, sorting through a lifetime of accumulating stuff. She called to let me know she had a stack of books about the Grateful Dead and wanted to know if I would like to have them. I stopped by this afternoon and picked them up. We hugged and she told me it’ll nice to have known you. I said yes, it’ll nice to have known you too. Pretty cool, strangers until the realization that we have the Grateful Dead in common. Then, it’s good friends.