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\nI never drank coffee before I was 21 and almost fainted in a doctor’s office after he gave me a shot and a big cup of coffee to keep me from going down all the way. Slowly but surely over the next few months I built up a taste to it and by the time I started living in recording studios in the late 70’s when I got my big break with Earth Wind & Fire I was up to 20+ cups a day as social breaks at the coffee machine and playing Pong was the only time I ever saw sunshine.<\/p>\n\n
I never actually used this cup to drink out of, mainly because it was too heavy to pick up full and take a delicate sip from and the coffee was too cold by the time the weight was manageable. So it’s spent three decades as a candy dish, pen holder and even made it on to MTV from 1989-91 as part of “Just Say Julie”, the first music video clip show ever, when it hung in Uptown Julie Brown’s set that I art-directed.<\/p>\n![\"coffee-cup-giant-Julie-Brown\"](\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/coffee-cup-giant-Julie-Brown.jpg\" "\\"coffee-cup-giant-Julie-Brown\\"")
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I used to work around the clock. Now I’m at a more human 12 – 16 hours a day. But oftentimes the nights still seem like a bottomless cup.<\/p>\n![\"coffee-cup-giant_6515\"](\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/coffee-cup-giant_6515.jpg\" "\\"coffee-cup-giant_6515\\"")
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