“On January 29, 2016, Prince summoned me to his home, Paisley Park, to tell me about a book he wanted to write…Prince had always embodied dualities. Here was one more: he had told me that he was O.K., and he was not O.K. There was nothing false in the way he spoke to me, and nothing false in the way he spoke during his darkest moments.”
The Book of Prince
Dan Piepenbring | The New Yorker | September 2, 2019 | 7,025 words
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