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" There is a time of reckoning in all our lives. "

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Looking Forward

" People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it. "

" When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity. "

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" The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them. "

" The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks. "

" My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior. "