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‟ I keep seeing the headline on articles that says something like 'Mary Gauthier Helping Our Veterans.' It's troubling - and it's condescending. Whatever I'm doing as a songwriter to help them tell their stories, they're giving it back to me double, triple, quadruple.
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‟ Recovery stabilized me; songwriting gave me a purpose.
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‟ I'm grateful to songwriting and recovery to bringing me to a place of peace.
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‟ What I've found at 48 years old is that there's nothing about me that's unique.
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‟ There's a universal inside of me. So if I tell my story, you're going to see parts of your story in it. I don't know which parts, but we all overlap. We're all very much alike.
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‟ I think having near-death experiences, they sure made me free.
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‟ Songs, especially lyrics, have always been really important to me.
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‟ I think each veteran's soul has something that it needs to say. I know from my own personal traumas, it's very hard to know what that is. But when I'm watching someone else struggle, it's not as confusing for me, 'cause it's not my struggle, so I can help identify that.
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‟ 'I Drink' took me two years to write.
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‟ I haven't been in the military, but I've known my share of pain. It allows me to sit with someone who's struggling and not be afraid.
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‟ What I was told is that I was born to a mother who was a Catholic, while her boyfriend was not. They couldn't get married unless they put me up for adoption.
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