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		<title>The Sprinter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May 17, Howard’s birthday, is always a special one for me and Bill and all of us who loved Howard. I wrote this post a few weeks ago, but I’ve been waiting for today – it’s a toast to my brother – who was not much of an athlete, but a sprinter nonetheless. Howard and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://howardashman.com/blog/the-sprinter/</link>
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		<title>Interviews</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interviews are tough to do – for both the interviewer and the interviewee. And it’s a fact of life that sometimes the facts get a little bashed in the process. You hope, though, that when you’re being interviewed the essence of what you’re saying is respected. Sadly, that’s not always the case. Recently, both Bill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auntie Ursula</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The oddest things occur to a person when driving.  For instance, I was just minding my own business, picking up some groceries, when it hit me like a flash.  Howard’s and my great aunt, Ann, was an Ursula doppelganger.  Coincidence?  I think not. Ann was our grandfather’s sister and she was, like her brother, a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://howardashman.com/blog/aunty-ursula/</link>
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		<title>Adolescent Magic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we both moved into adolescence and Howard found his place at Children’s Theater Association and at other local theaters, I lost my brother’s attention.  He made new friends and began to feel his way out of the house and into the larger world.  His new friends tended to be older than he was (partly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://howardashman.com/blog/adolescent-magic/</link>
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		<title>May 17, 1950 &#8211; March 14, 1991</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Oh, that he had one more song to sing, one more song&#8221; &#160;]]></description>
		<link>http://howardashman.com/blog/may-17-1950-march-14-1991/</link>
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		<title>Bar Mitzvah Blues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although we were assured that in her youth she had been a beautiful redhead, by the time we knew Nana, she was our well-padded grandmother, with a hearing aid receiver the size of a pack of cards tucked into her bosom, white hair, glasses and a letter-writing habit that kept distant relatives up-to-date on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://howardashman.com/blog/bar-mitzvah-blues/</link>
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		<title>When Daddy Got Sick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our family life was divided into two parts – before and after Daddy got sick.  That was the phrase we all used, Mom included.  Daddy got sick in 1958 or ’59, I’m not sure which.  I know it was in the spring because Howard and I were at an aunt’s house for Seder when Mom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://howardashman.com/blog/when-daddy-got-sick/</link>
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		<title>The Ultimate Insider</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Howard was special.  He read early, wrote early, he sang and danced and seemed to have a supernatural ability to charm adults.  He was also a little effeminate.  I have some family film of him at maybe four or five years old, dancing around just a little too high on his toes and a little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://howardashman.com/blog/the-ultimate-insider/</link>
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		<title>Interview with Alan Menken, part two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the second part of my interview with Alan Menken, I wanted to explore his thoughts on some of the less well-known Ashman/Menken projects and to get his thoughts on what might have been. Here goes: As you know, I am a great fan of the Ashman/Menken musical, GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER.  I know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://howardashman.com/blog/interview-with-alan-menken-part-two/</link>
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		<title>Interview with Alan Menken, part one</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t remember the first time I met Alan Menken.  No doubt it was at a rehearsal or early performance of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, but I’m sure I was much more excited about the possibility of being in the same room as Kurt Vonnegut than about meeting some new composer. That was 34 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://howardashman.com/blog/interview-with-alan-menken-part-one/</link>
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