Happy Birthday, Carly Simon!

Melissa Firman
4 min readJun 26, 2019
Carly Simon. Photo from Pixabay.

One of my earliest memories is being around 7 years old and singing along to Carly Simon’s timeless mega-hit “You’re So Vain.” I played the 45 record constantly (show of hands from everyone who is old enough to remember 45s!), blissfully unaware of the provocative questions that still linger today. I didn’t even understand most of the lyrics but I knew enough to know that I loved the poetry of I had some dreams, they were clouds in my

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Melissa Firman

Writes about books, GenX, politics, life. Currently working on a memoir. www.melissafirman.com