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Instead of willing myself to love something that I simply do not, what if I was honest in my self-loathing? What might I be compelled to change if I did not feel morally bound to positivity?
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Jazz Songs of the episode:
Love, I’ve Found You by Wynton Kelly
Warm Valley by Johnny Hodges
Nancy (With The Laughing Face) by John Coltrane Quartet
In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning by Wynton Marsalis
Concerto for Trumpet, 2 Oboes, Strings and Continuo in D Major: II. Largo by Johann Friedrich Fasch et. al
Someone to Watch over Me by Marcus Robert
I Heard You Cried Last Night by Phil Woods, Vic Juris
Autumn in New York by The Modern Jazz Quartet
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