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Continued from page 3

Published on April 30, 1998

"We've always been very close," High says. "I did a tour with them during the time that Mr. Brown was incarcerated, and we kept in contact with each other. We got in touch with Bobby Byrd and Fred Wesley and Bootsy Collins, and they agreed that they'd work with us and help us to get some songs together. And talk about a family reunion, oh boy...When we all got to Cincinnati, if you would've seen us, you would've said, Look at them, they're like children! We were hollerin' and screamin' and cryin' and kissin' each other...we were just so excited."

"We're just as good or better singers than we were," Whitney says. "And that's a blessing. God has given us our health to keep our pipes, and that's four different funky sounds.

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