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Michael Stipe: What Are Friends For

Mark Kemp, Option, September 1990

2 SODA FOUNTAIN glasses full of strawberry-banana smoothie, a plate of nachos covered with melted cheese, a gorgeous Manhattan spring afternoon: what more could a couple of blue-blooded small-town southern boys ask for?

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