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July 7, 2019 Allan Showalter

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“[Marianne] had these qualities that were very, very old, and that are very rare now, very rare to find in people.” Leonard Cohen On Art, Love, & Marianne – Listen To NRK Broadcast: If It Be Your Will

“Suzanne Elrod… mother of Leonard Cohen’s two children and a female of conspicuously sultry beauty and appetites, was on the phone [to Leonard] from the Greek island of Hydra making the one telephone call the police would permit her.”

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