I was backpacking around Europe in 1984 with my best friend Joan! We were barely 21 years old and experiencing 14 different countries around Europe for the first time!

When we heard 'When Doves Cry' playing on someones stereo we  loved it immediately!

We were so excited to hear some American Music while traipsing around Europe! It was few and far between back then!

We were tired, hungry and sleeping in bus stations, train stations and at 'Flats' and  Youth Hostels.

It was a blast of course!, But it was challenging at times. Once we heard 'Prince' we were crazy for it! (Let's Get Crazy!) And we paid some exorbitant amount to get a cassette to play on our 'Astro Tunes' player, of the 'Purple Rain Album.' It was one I definitely wore out! All those memories flood back each time I hear a Prince song!

When I got back to the states, the first movie I saw was 'Purple Rain' and the man I saw it with, was the man I married for 20 years a short time later!

That album still is one of my Fav's!

And, I know some find it odd...but, I had the biggest crush on PRINCE! I thought he was super sexy! lol

He left his mark on this world!  That is for sure! And, certainly, he left his mark on me! I'm a HUGE FAN!

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