So the year was 2016 and my wife Wendy and my daughter McKinley and I were driving to the start of the Davis turkey trot.

It was a half marathon held about an hour or so away from where we live.

And I was excited.

I was feeling in the moment.

I was about to do something that I loved with people that I loved even more.

And when I get excited and I'm in the car and I want to help

people take their minds off of something stressful, then I like to play music. And I love having

the ability to look up any song from my youth and play it instantly. I don't know if my family,

especially my kids, love that so much. It still kind of blows my mind that I used to have to

record a song off the radio,

or if you were lucky, one of your friends would buy the tape or the record or a CD of an artist

that you wanted to hear just so that you could hear one or two songs that they would play on the

radio. So on this particular day, my live DJ mode had somehow kicked in and I had found my way

to sharing with my daughter McKinley old Jackson five songs,

in particular, Michael Jackson, belting out who's loving you at the age of 11,

which reminded me of the artist Terrence Trent Darby, who covered that cover because that song,

just for the G-Wiz file, was it originally written by Smokey Robinson and performed by his

group The Miracles in 1960, but I digress.

So on his album, introducing the hard line, according to Terrence Trent Darby, that's the name of the

album, back in 1987, when I was a junior in high school, I first heard that song.

And so I asked her to play this version, this Terrence Trent Darby version.

And the second it started up, I immediately felt tears well up in my eyes so fast as I thought

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