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after i finished my school i was selling something to a man on the phone. he said he was a pianist. i was delighted, i said i had seen a chamber pianist at my mom's friends house. her friend has 15 grand pianos from all different times in his appt. its not that the appt is that huge, just full to the teeth with pianos. i told the man, "yeah, this kid was wonderful, he had all the breaths, like, spot on." "what do you play" he threw back "well nothing really, i played some clarinet for a month when i was a kid, why." "how do you know about the breaths?" "i don't know, i heard them." "you were looking at his hands then," "no i was

the reason growing can hurt is because you are often scared to shed your last skin take a note from bark, you need not drop the whole thing at once like the snake, but instead where there is a scab or fissure push a more beautiful stronger piece from beneath. start small, wherever you can. in the end all the new pieces of you will meld together to form a unified skin made from cultivated babysteps. the tree is scarred but we never would accuse it of such because its skin is seamless. Cassie taught me that cork is the soft breathable layer between surface and core. the cushion where you can collect confidence and calculations for how

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