MAKE UPS AND BREAK UPS 2008

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It's been a while since I've made one of these compilations. 
I started around 1996 with the first Make Ups and Break Ups cd. 
2008 marks the first one that I've done completely via the web.

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I've been thinking and reflecting about my life at this moment in
time and wanted to share with my friends and strangers alike,
music that I enjoy that help me through the good and bad times. 

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JTV
05/08

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The longing for a destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.
All too often forced to share our bed with those who cannot fathom
our soul, can we not be forgiven if we believe ourselves fated to
stumble one day upon the man or woman of our dreams?
Can we not be excused a certain superstitious faith in a creature who
will prove the solution to our relentless yearnings?
And though our prayers may never be answered, though there may
be no end to the dismal cycle of mutual incomprehension, if the heavens
should come to take pity on us, then can we really be expected to
attribute the encounter with this prince or princess to mere coincidence?
Or can we not for once escape rational censure and read it as
nothing other than an inevitable part of our romantic destiny.

Alain de Botton

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