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    Rick James’s Long Lost Annotations to His 1981 Hit Song “Superfreak” Reveal What He Really Wanted to Record Was an Anthem of Female Empowerment
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    Key Ring Chronicles: Tropicana Token
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  • December 16, 2016
    TV Network Pitch: Bring Back Family Ties
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    Forthcoming ’80s Remakes That Haunt the Nightmares of the Alt-Right
    by Sean Gill
  • October 3, 2016
    Jewish Holidays That Sarah Siblowski and I Fabricated to Get Out of School While Coming of Age in Utah in the 1980s
    by Tracy Manaster
  • July 19, 2016
    Key Ring Chronicles: “Caius” Tag
    by Beth Ineson
  • June 23, 2016
    Notable Reviews from My 1982 Diary
    by Jocelyn Pihlaja
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