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Isn’t it a good thing that all the bad stuff isn’t bunched up together in one person?

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Shaun Usher
Feb 26, 2021
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Johnny Cash would have turned 89 today. There are so many fitting letters to revisit on such an anniversary: Cash’s note to Bob Dylan, written on the back of a sick bag in 1963, a year before they first met; or the message he once sent to Tom Petty which read, in part, “You’re a good man to ride the river w…

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