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By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.

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Judy Collins, Mandy Patinkin, Renée Fleming, Michael R. Jackson, Melissa Errico, Tony Kushner, Sherman Irby and New York ...