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FORTY YEARS AGO TODAY, GEORGE STRAIT’S WORLD CHANGED FOREVER — AND THE QUIET MAN COUNTRY MUSIC LOVES BECAME EVEN QUIETER. Shortly before midnight on June 25, 1986, near San Marcos, Texas, his 13-year-old daughter, Jenifer, was riding with friends when the car lost control and rolled over. Jenifer did not survive. George Strait was already becoming one of country music’s biggest names. But after that night, fame meant very little beside a grief no parent should ever have to carry. He later said he shut down. He didn’t feel like talking about it, so he stopped doing interviews. If protecting his heart cost him part of his career, then so be it. That was George Strait. No public collapse. No long explanation. Just a father trying to survive the kind of pain words could never hold. Fans have long heard “Baby Blue” as a quiet echo of Jenifer, though George never confirmed it that way. Years later, “You’ll Be There” gave him a song that reached toward Heaven, and he said he truly believed they would see each other again someday. In her memory, the Jenifer Strait Memorial Foundation has supported children’s charities for nearly four decades. She was 13. She is still loved. She is still remembered.

Introduction Forty Years Ago Today, George Strait’s World Changed Forever Forty years ago today, near...

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