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Re: Kashka from Baghdad

From: Robb McCaffree <nsrjm@nursepo.medctr.ucla.edu>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 08:03:15 -0800
Subject: Re: Kashka from Baghdad
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OneLessMan wrote:
> 
> What I have always gathered from the song is that Kashka and his lover are
> so in love that they need nothing else from the world.  As long long as
> they have each other that's enough for them.  It's not degrating their
> relationship because she says that she longs to be with them, which I take
> to mean that she would like to be around that kind of love.  I don't think
> that she would degrate any relationship, not even a homosexual one.  She
> has other songs that have the "homosexual" theme.
> 

Hi, Del.

	I live in West Hollywood too. (What a surprise.) I'm 
unaware of any other Kate song with homosexuality as a subject 
matter -- though I think there is large gay following for Kate. 
What songs were you referring to?

Robb