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I've been truly blessed in my career, but probably the most important moment happened to me and my ex-wife in Best Buy. We were buying a dishwasher, and the young lady helping us was, well, not very good with people. She kind of reminded me of "Pat" from Saturday Night live, bad hair day, a bit overweight, etc.
She kept looking at me, and quickly turning away if I made eye contact. She seemed very nervous. Comes time to ring up the sale, and I hand her my credit card. She looked at it, and said "I knew it, you wrote the song "I will Be" for Christina Aguilera".
I said "Yeah how did you know about that ? It was just a b-side in the UK".
She turned to me teary eyed, and said "I recognized you from the VH-1 special. That song helped me through some very difficult times. I even wrote to RCA and told them to release it as a single in the U.S.. I love your songs"
My wife and I just about broke down and cried right there. As a songwriter it doesn't get any better than that. . . . .
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