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| 1989 in Philadelphia, PA |
So What is “20 Years in 27 Days: A Marriage in Music”?
by Mark Anthony Neal
Part love story, part social history and part music criticism (like all of my work), “20 Years in 27 Days” is a celebration of a committed relationship; July 27, 2011 marks the 20th Wedding Anniversary of my marriage to Gloria Taylor-Neal.
So for 27 days I will reminisce, through music about our relationship, the worlds we lived in that helped forge that relationship and the radical importance of staying together at a time when so many don’t.
In short this is the story about a couple of Bronx kids, who group up five minutes from each other, met for the first time miles way in a Brooklyn high school and managed over time and space to reconnect years later on Broadway and Astor Place, fall in love and raise two beautiful and challenging Brown girls.
Truth be told, I rarely get the opportunity to let my partner know how much this has all mattered to me, and “20 Years in 27 Day: A Marriage in Music” is just my little opportunity to let her know, share it with the world, and tribute the combined 90-plus years that our parents spent together.
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