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    <body><![CDATA[Music was the wallpaper of D.J.Parhams life so it seems only natural that she would pen a novel about a blues singer. The Blues For Annie Mae takes reader’s back into the 1980’s and into the life a young girl with a mentally-ill mother that lives through her daughter. Annie Mae  suffers through ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19311866">more...</a>]]></body>
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