We were two friends – it wasn’t like we met at a club. “She told me she was a singer and that she went to Mount St Dominic Academy, and I told her I was playing basketball and in college.

She was a basketball star, home from college Houston was still in high school. “There was an instant connection,” Crawford says. In her publisher’s New York office, the 55-year-old is softly spoken and elegant, choosing her words with the care of someone still half stuck in the mindset of shielding her friend.Ĭrawford and Houston were teenagers when they met at a community centre in East Orange, New Jersey, the singer the younger by three years. Even seven years after the singer’s death, Crawford clearly continues to struggle. To break any silence is difficult – never mind one enforced over decades, at the risk of huge commercial damage to a brand as valuable as Houston’s. Reading her book, one gets the chilling sense not only of how alien things were in the very recent past, but of a story that shouldn’t be repeated in the future. “I found comfort in my silence,” says Crawford, whose decision to write the book was in part a rebuke to the tabloidisation of her friend’s legacy. Meanwhile, Crawford was harangued, marginalised, and allegedly threatened with violence by the singer’s family. More acutely, it is the story of two women who, for the entirety of Houston’s life, concealed the sexual origins of that relationship, amid intense and often prurient speculation.

Simple Gifts: Just Curious / Miracles / Change of Heart / Double Exposure (Westmoreland, #3.T he story told by Robyn Crawford in the pages of A Song For You, an account of her decades-long relationship with Whitney Houston is tender, moving and painful to read, the history of a friendship that is also a love story. The following Contain 'Miracles' (Westmoreland, #3.5): From this era, Whitney, Clayton, and Stephen appear in Until You, with Clayton and Stephen's ancestor, Royce Westmoreland, as the main character in A Kingdom of Dreams. However, in order to save himself from ruin, her father has come to an arrangement with the arrogant Duke of Claymore, and Whitney is the price.Ĭharacters from the Westmoreland Dynasty Saga universe appear across the novels. Note: 1985 is the Original, unedited versionįresh from her triumphs in Paris society, Whitney Stone returns to England determined to win the heart of her childhood love.

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