Crackers in Bed

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Song for the Taking 1

Song for the Taking 1

Being an ongoing series of essays on various songs and what they suggest. Here, on The Low Anthem's "Boeing 737."

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Charles Taylor
Sep 11, 2023
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It must have been just after ten in the morning when my cell phone rang in my apartment in Brooklyn. I didn’t know the woman who was calling and she didn’t know me. To this day I don’t know if she just dialed a random number or if some glitch in a suddenly overloaded system connected her to me. The most important thing to her was that she reached someon…

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