A lot has changed in the ten years since Prince has passed. It's almost like we're living in a new world and in a lot of ways, we are. Quite frankly, for me anyway, it's harder these days to get excited about music or entertainment. Maybe I'm just old. But when I was a child and discovered Prince, like so many fans, that was it! The thrill of knowing a new album was coming out, could just excite me beyond measure. Mostly it was the music, but with Prince, it wasn't just the music! It was the fashion, it was the movies, it was seeing him in an interview or the paper or in a magazine; all of it! And of course, he was the backdrop to my life. To all of our lives — Prince fans or not. Recently I drove by a place where I used to take an aerobics class in 1986 when I was fourteen. I cannot look at that building, which is now a T-Mobile, without remembering that class and how one of the songs we worked out to was anotherloverholenyohead. There's a Cash Advance store that used to be a Cat's Records where Prince came in the late 70s or early 80s and even signed autographs. I didn't go and see him then, I might have been too young, but I always think about my old boss who told me she went and that Prince told her, 'You've got beautiful eyes.' She loved that story. So do I.
