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Songcraft: How She's Supposed to Be

How a song for my daughter became my albatross

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Ben Wakeman
Jul 11, 2023
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The song I want to talk about this week has been one of the most difficult songs I’ve ever tried to write, not because it’s terribly complex but because the subject matters so much to me. It’s a song about my trans daughter.

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