10 years later
The steam hasn't yet stopped coming off the new release.
It took her a decade to even begin a new album. She's 62, soon to be 63. We don't live forever, not even Stevie Nicks.
In a perfect world, she would have filled all those in-between years with an album of standards (including her stunning version of "At Last," her duet album with Tom Petty, her duet album with Don Henley, Buckingham Nicks II and III and maybe even IV, and then maybe even two or three more really good Fleetwood Mac records (especially before Christine retired).
But in the reality we live in, all of those people lived hard fast complicated lives and those records did not happen.
We're lucky to have what we've got. Let it be.
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