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Singer and pianist Connick couldn’t quite find the right word to describe his “special place that exists between reality and dreams where I go when I make art,” so he invented one: “elaboratio.” He defines it in part as “a deeply personal state where I look forward to the past, draw from the future, and create within the present.” He admits that his mother, Anita-Francis Livingston “Babe” Connick, the subject of this book, who died when he was 13, would have “burst out laughing” at the word—“suc

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Center: Singer and pianist Connick couldn’t quite find the right word to describe his “special place that exists between reality and dreams where I go when I make art,” so he invented one: “elaboratio.” He defines it in part as “a deeply personal state where I look forward to the past, draw from the future, and create within the present.” He admits that his mother, Anita-Francis Livingston “Babe” Connick, the subject of this book, who died when he was 13, would have “burst out laughing” at the word—“suc
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