The South Wing

Before the rising star began to fall again, before the invention of the boy band, before I learned how to read, I followed in my brother’s footsteps as a Michael Jackson fan.  Instead of going to our bedrooms, we would sometimes dance around in our footie pajamas to songs like “Thriller.”
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When MJ died today, suddenly and of cardiac arrest at the age of 50, millions of people around the world began mourning the loss of their King of Pop while others were morbidly cheering the death of a child molester. For my generation of Americans, though, Jackson wasn’t just a tabloid joke. He was our childhood.