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I am so glad people are FEELING him now.  I came back from Europe and oh, they get Michael!!!!  They associate him with Marcel Marceau, the mime!!!  We need to grow up and appreciate our artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from Mariana : MJ was a non-literal artist. And the world has responded to him playing an irrelevant soap opera. There are many levels, messages and expressions of inner search in this gentle soul&#8217;s work, this soul from Gary, Indiana. 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