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Good evening readers, how are you? As I’ve been sitting in my loft room at my dad’s for nearly the past week I have rediscovered my admiration for the work of the Artist Formerly Known As An\u00a0Unpronounceable Symbol, the one and only, Prince. So what? You’re writing a blog post to tell us that you’ve gotten back into that skinny mother fucker with the high voice? (to quote the 1987 song Bob George)? Well not exactly. 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