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To: Gauguin who wrote (30532)	6/30/1999 4:43:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Story-telling is an art, one that I admire. But I realize Keillor's faux-homespun style has its detractors - my husband is one. He squirms in his seat and mutters when I put the show on - I do try to catch just the monologue when Chris is in the car, because more than Keillor, he hates the music. He's got standards. Not me, I am eclectic, which is high-falutin' for "easy." I also like a show on NPR called "Songs for Aging Children," don't know if it's just local or national. And there's one on Celtic folk.

To: Gauguin who wrote (30532)	6/30/1999 6:44:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

When my mother was dying, she would listen to Keillor's Lake Woebegon tapes all night long. She loved his voice. In those long hours when there was no sleep for her anymore, but the discipline of years kept her trying to stay on a schedule, she would play them over and over. Those last weeks, I'd be lying in bed across the hall, listening for her as I half-dozed, worried that she would need me, and I'd hear the click and then his voice, soothing and calm, going on for hours. I packed up all those tapes after, took them back to Dallas, thinking I would listen to them, maybe hoping that they would connect me to her a little. But I never did play them. I think I was afraid that she wouldn't be there.