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Buck Owens

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

Buck Owens

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Buck Owens’ mother expressed that she felt fulfilled by experiencing her own unachieved desires through his life. She believed that by doing what she wished she could have done, he was living out her personal dreams.

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