Jim Murray

1 year ago ·

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 Because of my wife's music business connections we lived for three years in the coach house behind Gordon Lightfoot's house. The rent was amazingly low. Our only job was to go over to the big house on the weekends and turn the lights on and off in the evening to make it look like someone was there and discourage anyone who might want to break in. Gord had a lot of crazy souvenir-seeking fans. It was a very interesting time in our lives. But it allowed us to save up for a good downpayment on our first house. So thanks, Gord. This was Gord's Cadillac.

To quote Springsteen, it was "Long and dark, shiny and black."

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