i think i wouldn't really have to say much. i would just, you know -- by the time i have kids -- i don't know, they will be beaming it into our heads instead of an ipod or whatever. i would just make sure that they could listen to as much of her music as possible. can i tell you, aretha franklin -- she loved her regal persona. towards the end, she didn't tell -- she did not tell people -- many people what she was dealing with. even some people close to her didn't know everything. some of them were kept in the dark, because, number one, she was private. number two, she loved having that regal -- her regal persona. if you see her in her beautiful gowns. she loved to come on stage in a fur coat and then fling the fur coat off, because she was the original diva, the epitome of