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MIButterfly

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4. Thank you, Dear_Prudence!

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Sat Jan 10, 2026, 10:28 PM

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I've never heard The Rolling Stones version, but there's no way it could ever come close to The Temptations version. I don't think there ever will be a better version.

Full disclosure: as someone who grew up in Detroit in the 60s, I am all about Motown. That is my music, then, now and forever.

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