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Dear Amy: My husband and I have a special-needs teenage son. After more than a year on a wait list, we finally have an in-home therapist.

Continuing to honor women of music this month, it’s only fitting to spotlight another lady who changed the game. Poly Styrene was a punk rocker, the first of her kind.

INDIANAPOLIS - The Tony Award winning and Grammy Award nominated musical romance An American in Paris makes its long-awaited Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre debut on March 30. Beautifully based on the 1951 Academy Award winner for Best Picture that starred Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, An American in Paris brings breathtaking dance and music to the stage.

Dear Amy: My husband had an affair eight years ago, but it feels like I found out yesterday. I hurt every day.

How often we wax euphoric over the 'simple, gentle country of our childhood. 'Let's discuss that simple, gentle time a bit.

Dear Rusty: When one becomes a widow/widower, what is the most efficient way to start receiving the deceased's monthly Social Security. Signed: Still Grieving? Dear Still Grieving: There is really only one way to start receiving surviving spouse benefits – you must contact Social Security directly to apply.

Dear Amy: After many years of marriage and two children, my now ex-husband revealed that a few years before he and I met, when he was about 30 years old, he had a 'consensual” sexual relationship with his 15-yearold, non-biological niece (his ex-wife's niece). Everyone in their family found out about it and was upset – but nothing happened.

Jean Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn in 1960. Raised Catholic, his mother instilled a love of art in her son from an early age. He often sketched his favorite cartoons and created a children's book with a friend in the latter half of the 1960s.

Since March is a month dedicated to honoring women, it seemed fitting to tell the story of one of music's finest. Who better to focus on than someone who deserves much more credit for stirring up some lovely sounds?