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Mimi Fariña and Milan Melvin divorced in 1971 and Mimi died in 2001. In 2006, Baez contributed a "re-tooled" version of the song to Volume 1 of the XM Artist
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had died in a motorcycle accident two years previously.) Mimi and Milan were married at the 1968
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