My mother was into opera and ...

My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.
 Chaka Khan

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As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.
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But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.
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