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Artist:

Charlie Rich

Song:

Behind Closed Doors

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Feel Like Going Home: The Essential Charlie Rich

Year: 

1997
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A soulful singer with eclectic tastes, Charlie Rich left behind a body of music that includes early rock, straight country, Memphis blue-eyed soul,...
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alynn | MEMORY FROM 1967

Smoke and Mirrors

LOCATION: My Home , Tennessee

YEAR: 1967

TAGS: marriage, divorce, smokeandmirrors, facades

PUBLISHED: February 29, 2008

This song will forever remind me of my first marriage although it ended five years before the song was ever released. 
 From day one we made a pact that our problems were not for public consumption.  Not even family was to see or even suspect anything but pure marital bliss from our union.  Thus to the world we were the perfect couple with the perfect marriage.  It was a façade we maintained right to the end.
 Our marriage didn’t fall apart overnight.  Instead it broke piece by piece until there was nothing left worth saving.  There was the pregnancy that was then mysteriously wasn’t—the doctor couldn’t even confirm as a miscarriage, followed by tests that within a year told us that having a child at all was unlikely.  That was a big issue for him, since he was the last of his father’s name able to care on the name.  Add to that a mother-on-law who wanted to run our lives even when we were a thousand miles away, and a teenage sister-on-law that resented me for unknown reasons.  Sprinkle in unfounded suspicions, hurtful words spoken in anger, and tyrannical demands that left no room for debate or comprise.  Had we been more mature and not separated by thousands of miles at a critical time we might have worked it all out, but that wasn’t to be.
 Surprise and shock was the general reaction by friends and family when we split up.  Proof positive for me that “no one knows what goes on behind closed doors”.

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