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Lexington, KY Dad's Music
A while back, in the winding-down phase of American Idol, the theme of the week was Neil Diamond. Each of the contestants would choose a Neil Diamond song to...
Read Memory Livermore, CA Mom's Taste In Music
Neil Diamond was constantly playing in the background of my childhood. If ever there was an artist that I would say I completely related to my mom, and my...
Read Memory Cleveland, OH First Follows 4-Ever
It had been 21 years since we last spoke to one another, our eyes met or lips crossed each others path. We were glad for one another that life had been fair...
Read Memory Cleveland, OH Ok, I am 20, now what ?
Some of the ladies were talking while sipping pretty-colored liquid drinks while others were inhaling a cigarette while mimicking some biker dude across the...
Read Memory Alexandria, VA My First Time in Boston
In every single movie about the Red Sox and games in Boston, you always hear about the Big Green Monster. You also always hear the song "Sweet...
Read Memory Wollongong (for now, Calif later) I wonder when...
This song returns my mind to my teens. I wonder when I first thought of myself as a woman, if it is a similar age to most other young girls, and if I was...
Read Memory Bellefontaine, OH The Attic of my life
In my 20's I had many roomates and many different apartments. It was 1996 or 1997 and this time my roomates were Candi, Greg, and Scott (who had a set up in...
Read Memory Hudson, WI The Best Christmas Movie...EVER !
When you think of Christmas movies or t.v. shows you probably think of "It's A Wonderful Life" or "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" or...
Read Memory Hudson, WI The Wedding Dancer--Part 2
A continuation...We've been dancing our butts off all night and Dad has been having a good time drinking, chatting, dancing. I put ina request for one of his...
Read Memory Cleveland, OH He had lost another wife
He is my favorite uncle, really the only one I got to know, get close to and feel for when things were good or bad in his life. Every summer since I was born...
Read Memory Rockwall, TX Things we owe our parents
My parents started exposing me to Neil Diamond, as well as the Moody Blues and Peter, Paul and Mary, at a very young age. At the time, I didn't know that it...
Read Memory Cleveland, OH Beach bumming with A Diamond
The chairs were around the roaring fire, the jeep had its big battery charged all morning and afternoon so it could blast out tunes most of the late night...
Read Memory Roseland, NJ A Superstar Visit
I went to high school with two of Neil Diamond's children. They lived a low-key lifestyle in the suburbs of New Jersey, having taken their stepfather's...
Read Memory Bay City, MI Abby and Neil's Wedding
This song always could take me back to childhood, but one of the most recent memories of this song was created at my cousin Abby's wedding. When it was...
Read Memory Citrus Heights, CA Friday Nights
Growing up with a single parent is hard no matter what the circumstances are. But my Mom was a single parent to three kdis.This caused her to drink.On...
Read Memory Westmont, IL Rosie
    I think I was about 12 years old and my mother took me to the store to buy a pair of pants. She agreed to let me pick out the pants. That...
Read Memory Cleveland, OH Cruising the Convertible Triumph...
It was about 88 degrees, sun beating down on the cloth red seats of the burgundy Triumph TR6 convertible my uncle W owned and we were speeding along the...
Read Memory Houston Make It Stop, Celine Diamond
While working at a record company, there was a time when an executive would get a very early copy of a song or album and blast it very loudly from their...
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