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Hot but cool? Hey, no problem

By Jay Bookman
April 10, 2015

How can you be totally hot, yet totally cool?

I don't know the answer. You'd have to ask someone who does. You could begin with Alice Smith, an up-and-coming soul singer with roots in the Augusta area. She pulls it off perfectly, in my humble opinion.

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