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 Start Birth Years Birthstars Constellations  The children of 1986 will naturally wish to know how Whitney Houston's eventual descent into tabloid infamy might impact their own lives. If one is to address this question, one must first ask what it was about the seemingly perfect Whitney that made that decline possible. If one listened to Greatest Love Of All in 1985, as one could scarcely avoid doing on an almost daily basis, one might have thought megalomania to be the biggest danger Whitney Houston might one day face. But if one goes back and listens to it today, one hears the not-so-faint note of wishful thinking and overcompensating in Whitney's expression of self-regard. And if one listens to the sugary, irresistible How Will I Know, one hears Whitney saying, quite literally, "I have no faith whatsoever in my own judgment, particularly when it comes to matters of the heart." That poor judgment may have sown the seeds of Whitney's partial undoing, but this legacy need not manifest for the girls and boys of the Whitney Houston generation as anything more serious than a string of bad boyfriends and girlfriends or a temporary habit of losing the good ones due to excessive self-love.
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