The album became a personal totem, woven through the eras of her life. Miles saw her through it all: “The Bohemian Woman Phase. The single again after a decade of married phase. The last time I had a date I was eighteen and oh, god, now I’m thirty phase…. The cool me out quick cause I’m hanging by a thread phase. For this frantic phase, Miles was perfect.” This is just what happens when we fall in love with a piece of art—especially when it comes to music, which tends to become, just as Cleage shows here, epoch-defining in our lives. Jurassic, Cretaceous, Tertiary; Beatles, Dinosaur Jr., Belle
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