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Keys choked back tears as she remembered her close friend Whitney Houston for “[t]he way she crept into everybody’s heart, the way she was a beautiful human being…She’s an angel to us, and a beautiful human being. I think we’ve been sent an angel for a long time.” Her stirring rendition of “Send Me an Angel” paid tribute to this facet of Houston’s personality.