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Bonnie Raitt's Ace of Hearts

Mark Rowland, Musician, July 1991

THE 'NICK OF Time' baby has arrived. "Everyone thought I was singing that song about me," Bonnie Raitt is saying. "But it was happening to my dearest friend. Her husband didn't want her to have a baby and she was going to leave him. She really loved him, and she didn't want to leave, but what a choice..."

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